While many states and some Iowa counties have offered incentives for citizens to get a free vaccination, Iowa's governor continues to call for citizens to get vaccinated while repeating that ultimately it's their choice.
State Auditor Rob Sand released a report Thursday showing overpayments to Timon Oujiri, who was dismissed by Gov. Kim Reynolds in May after four years leading the state's nursing home for Iowa veterans and their spouses.
The captain who led 27 Iowa State Patrol troopers working border security duties for two weeks in Texas said Wednesday they accomplished their mission of disrupting criminal activity that included smuggling humans, drugs and firearms.
Iowa Lottery officials closed the books Wednesday on a record-breaking fiscal year that saw new highs for sales of lottery products, prizes to players and proceeds to the state.
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds held a press conference at 10 a.m. Wednesday to discuss Iowa State Patrol trooper deployment at the U.S.-Mexico border.
However, the 18.2 percent annual growth rate in state income tax revenue is “unusually high” when compared to individual income net tax growth that averaged 4.2 percent over the past two years.
Delegates to an AFSCME Council 61 convention this weekend selected Rick Eilander, a longtime union representative, to succeed Danny Homan as president of Iowa’s largest public employee union.
A state board meant to help oversee Iowa’s response to the coronavirus pandemic has not met since May because it does not have enough members.
The Iowa Department of Corrections fired Amanda Dodson, a registered nurse at the maximum-security Iowa State Penitentiary in Fort Madison, after an investigation found 77 inmates received shots containing up to six times the recommended dose of the Pfizer vaccine.
Some communities -- including cities in Iowa -- have stopped adding fluoride to drinking water, possibly based on misinformation. A new Iowa law that went into effect July 1 requires water system operators to give residents at least a 90-day notice before they stop adding flouride to drinking water.
The 33,260 new business entities in the 2021 fiscal year broke the previous record of 24,720 new business entities in the 2019 fiscal year, according to the Office of the Secretary of State.
Agreements released Monday show Iowa is donating the use of state troopers and their equipment at “no cost to Texas” to fight crime along the U.S. border with Mexico, but a spokesman for Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds said there still is a chance Texas could later reimburse some costs.
Still, tens of thousands of Iowans have not returned to work since the state began hemorrhaging employees at the onset of the pandemic last year.
Other laws taking effect Thursday cover child care, protests, diversity training, crimes
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