Articles Tagged: Iowa

A dispute in the nation’s closest congressional race in decades may be headed to a decision by the Democratically-controlled U.S. …

U.S. Rep. Abby Finkenauer, who has personal and political connections to President-elect Joe Biden, is being considered for secretary of …

Throughout the pandemic, local public health agencies have relied on contact tracers to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus. …

CEDAR RAPIDS – Congresswoman-elect Ashley Hinson has selected a Cedar Rapids native and veteran of Sen. Joni Ernst’s staff to …

Iowa’s second prison staff member has died from COVID-19, according to AFSCME Council 61, which represents correctional workers. AFSCME President …

Dozens of monuments and memorials honoring Confederate generals and the like have come down in this year of racial reckoning, …

Never believe anyone who says your vote does not count. In any election, ‘My vote doesn’t count” is something of …

DES MOINES – Iowans, for the most part, have been traveling less throughout the COVID-19 pandemic than they did at …

CLINTON – Six votes. Out of more than 394,400 votes cast. That’s all that now separates the two candidates running …

CEDAR RAPIDS – Prairie Creek Elementary fifth-grader Nathan Soto has been learning virtually this semester during the coronavirus pandemic because …

DES MOINES – The White House’s task force on the nation’s COVID-19 pandemic response is asking Iowa to take cues …

CEDAR RAPIDS – Criminal jury trials get bumped ahead routinely even in normal times – prosecutors and defense lawyers need …

New contact tracing software Iowa implemented Nov. 5 – at the height of a statewide surge of COVID-19 cases – …

Correction: There were 3,323 new individual cases reported in the 24-hour period ending 11 a.m. Thursday. A previous version of this …

The historically close race for an open southeast Iowa congressional seat could be nearing a single-digit victory as the tally …