Tom Barton

Donald Trump campaigned Saturday before a crowd of more than 2,000 in downtown Cedar Rapids, touting his trade and farm policies, protecting American jobs and undoing Democratic President Joe Biden’s immigration policies and electric vehicle incentives.

Iowa Democrats will wait until Super Tuesday in early March to release the results of its planned mail-in caucus presidential preference contest.

Johnson and Washington counties have teamed up on a new marketing effort to create a regional brand and promote the area as an agritourism destination.

The Gazette’s Iowa Ideas conference kicks off today. Volunteerism is one theme among many of the panel discussions happening Thursday and Friday. Volunteering has been declining for decades, but the pandemic and economic struggles have exacerbated the trend at a time when demand for nonprofit services continues to increase.

Iowa Republican U.S. House Reps. Ashley Hinson and Mariannette Miller-Meeks publicly declared their support for Steve Scalise as the next House Speaker.

Iowa City Council members discussed traffic safety and reviewed a 10-year pedestrian collision analysis during a Tuesday work session, in part due to public concerns and perceptions about pedestrian safety in the wake of the death of a jogger in a marked Iowa City crosswalk in May.

Iowa's four Republican U.S. representatives voted in favor of a House deal to fund the federal government for 45 days and avoid a shutdown.

Iowa’s all-Republican U.S. House delegation voted Friday on a failed last-ditch plan to keep the federal government temporarily open as the funding deadline nears. Federal government funding expires after midnight on Saturday.

Council considering more duplexes, incentives for higher density

Iowa Democratic Party Chair Rita Hart called on Iowa’s Republican U.S. House to put politics aside and work across the aisle on a budget resolution palatable to the Senate to avert a federal government shutdown.

“The government shutdown possibility sucks all of the oxygen out of the room,” Iowa State University professor Chad Hart says. “So until that is taken care of, you really can’t make forward progress on any other piece of legislation, including a Farm Bill.”

Recommendations by a state panel to cut or consolidate more than 100 administrative boards and commissions in Iowa could put millions in federal funding at risk to local nonprofits and public entities. And it may hinder efforts to provide safe and affordable housing at a time when homelessness is on the rise, according to federal, state and local nonprofit leaders

Debi Durham speaks about the state and pace of development in Iowa.

Study will compares bus rapid transit with passenger rail between Iowa City and North Liberty.

Three of Iowa's four congressional seats — which Democrats held as recently as 2020 — are still winnable, Iowa Democrats say, but the party doesn’t have candidates for two of them thus far.