Maya Marchel Hoff, Gazette-Lee Des Moines Bureau

He argues that Democrats’ health care demands would cost taxpayers more than $1 trillion

Thirty-four school board and city candidates across seven Iowa counties will not be listed on the ballot in the November election due to errors made by filing officers.

Iowa students have rebounded to pre-COVID performance across multiple subjects, including math, reading and writing, and saw an improvement in rates of chronic absenteeism last year, Gov. Kim Reynolds said Wednesday.

Speaking at a Westside Conservative Club meeting Wednesday in Urbandale, Iowa Lt. Gov. Chris Cournoyer, who is running for state auditor, explained her frustration with current State Auditor Rob Sand, who she said has “politicized the position.”

Iowa Republican U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson on Monday said she supports the Trump administration’s move to terminate an annual federal report tracking food insecurity among Americans.

Education, celebrity, rural identity influenced which candidates Iowa voters supported in presidential elections since 2012.

Roughly 30 people marched otuside the Iowa Department for the Blind building in Des Moines Tuesday to protest the changes made under new department leadership, which protesters said has silenced concerns from department employees regarding the changes.

Catelin Drey, a northwestern Iowa Democrat who won an August special election and broke the Republican supermajority in the Iowa Senate, was sworn in at the Iowa Capitol Monday morning.

Iowa will now have open-seat elections for governor and the U.S. Senate for the first time in nearly six decades, and half of the state’s federal delegation likely will feature new representation after the 2026 elections.

Republican legislative leaders said they will use money from the state’s $2 billion general fund surplus and $4 billion in the Taxpayer Relief Fund to cover the difference between how much revenue the state takes in and how much it’s budgeted to spend.

Former Iowa Department of Administrative Services director and Republican Adam Steen said his goal to live in preparation of higher levels of leadership so that the “lord would be exalted” is what drove him to announce a run for governor.

Iowa’s crowded field of Democrats running for U.S. Senate in 2026 pitched themselves and their campaigns to an audience of party members as they gear up for next year’s primary.

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds announced Tuesday that 20 members of the Iowa National Guard will provide U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials in the state with administrative and logistical support after receiving a request from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

State Rep. Josh Turek, who announced his candidacy for U.S. Senate on Tuesday, said the best thing for Iowans is for lawmakers to “move away from this party over country mentality.”

Candidates for governor, U.S. Senate and more are participating in the state’s time-honored tradition of greeting Iowans at the State Fair.