The funding to opioid addition treatment programs is one of the first publicly announced allocations of the millions of dollars available to Iowa through a national settlement against pharmaceutical companies over opioid addiction
The state says nearly 800 housing units or families were assisted by the funding after more than 5,000 homes were impacted by natural disasters in 2024.
Iowa anti-hunger advocates said rulings by two federal judges that order the Trump administration to fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program using contingency funds during the government shutdown offer some hope, but not immediate relief to the hundreds of thousands of Iowans who rely on the federal food aid program.
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Plan benefits that help thousands of Iowans buy food each month will not be distributed Saturday if the federal government is still shut down. As the country prepares for the impact of that pause, Iowans are looking for ways to help people in need. Here’s what food banks said is the most helpful.
Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird is calling for a federal investigation into refineries she says may be exploiting renewable fuel exemptions, while thousands of Iowa seniors are being urged to review their Medicare coverage amid plan cancellations and new drug pricing rules taking effect next year.
A federal judge has granted Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield a preliminary injunction temporarily blocking enforcement of parts of Iowa’s new pharmacy benefit manager reform law.
Gov. Kim Reynolds on Thursday announced plans to deploy the Iowa National Guard, match $1 million in food bank donations and recruit volunteers to help feed families if federal SNAP benefits stop Nov. 1 amid the federal government shutdown.
The College Community elementary school is 1 of 4 to earn the recognition in the former federal program now operated by the state.
Iowa’s Board of Regents for the first time is seeking a firm, rather than a single person, to serve as its legislative liaison and state relations representative for the University of Iowa in dealings with the Legislature and executive branch.
Cancer rates among young adults in the Corn Belt, a patchwork of golden fields and straight-line highways stretching across the heart of the Midwest, are rising more rapidly than in the country as a whole, a Washington Post data analysis reveals.
Trump filed the lawsuits over a 2024 presidential election poll that showed him trailing Democratic candidate Kamala Harris in Iowa by 4 percentage points.
Republican Iowa U.S. Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks has introduced legislation to fund federal food assistance that is scheduled to dry up next month if the government shutdown continues.
The law, which remains blocked, would make it a state crime for an individual to enter or be found in Iowa if that individual has previously been denied admission to or been deported from the United States.
A Johnson County district judge Friday ordered the state to stop removing historic material from the 168-year-old State Historical Society’s Iowa City research facility that it unexpectedly decided to close without warning or public discussion.
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