Rod Boshart

DES MOINES – Top legislators say they expect the split-control General Assembly’s 2011 session will need to go into overtime …

UPDATED: House Speaker Kraig Paulsen said Friday he would oppose efforts to impeach four sitting Iowa Supreme Court justices and …

DES MOINES – Gov. Terry Branstad on Thursday approved $46.7 million in supplemental spending to pay past-due bills for indigent …

Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller announced Thursday that a court-appointed receiver has transferred more than $215.2 million to the state …

DES MOINES – Gov. Terry Branstad signaled Wednesday that he might not accept proposed tax changes that were part of …

DES MOINES – The Iowa Senate voted today to approve a bill that seeks a state report assessing the extent …

Majority Democrats in the Iowa Senate today offered a “middle-ground” proposal to pass a fiscal 2012 budget and 50 percent …

It was apparent during a political dust-up Tuesday – triggered by McDonald’s national day of hiring – that some Iowa …

A state corrections official Tuesday said the Iowa State Penitentiary maximum-security facility was placed under lockdown status after an inmate …

Gov. Terry Branstad drew a hard line Monday, saying his insistence on a two-year state budget is “not negotiable” and …

DES MOINES – The leader of a Senate panel that has been assigned a bill that bans most abortions after …

Gov. Terry Branstad said Friday that he expects Iowa Supreme Court Justice David Wiggins will face opposition when he comes …

Gov. Terry Branstad said Friday he will sign into law the new proposed congressional and legislative district boundaries approved by …

Backers breathed new life into a gambling package Thursday by deferring plans to legalize Internet poker in Iowa for a …

DES MOINES – The Iowa Senate approved a commercial property tax relief plan Wednesday that could grow to $200 million …