Tom Barton

Iowa collected a record amount last month on sports betting with the kickoff of the football season, despite fewer bets being placed compared to a year go.

Iowa Republican U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson criticized President Joe Biden's decision to tap the Strategic Petroleum Reserve instead of ramping up domestic energy production to tame gas prices.

Iowa Republican U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson of Marion told reporters Friday she is feeling better and ready to resume campaigning after being released from the hospital earlier this week.

Gonterman was pronounced dead due to natural causes at 11:38 p.m. on Sunday, Oct 16.

State and federal agriculture officials on Thursday confirmed a new case of the highly transmissible avian influenza in a backyard flock in Dallas County.

Iowa voters will be asked to add language to the Iowa Constitution that states it is a “fundamental individual right“ to keep and bear arms, and that any restraint on that right is invalid unless it meets the stringent demands of “strict scrutiny” in court.

Iowa U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson of Marion was released from a Cedar Rapids hospital Tuesday after being admitted Sunday night for a kidney infection.

Iowa Republican U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley said he is unconcerned by the latest polling showing him in what could be his toughest re-election fight in 40 years, and continued to tout his longevity and seniority as an asset.

Iowa U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson of Marion was hospitalized Sunday night in Cedar Rapids and is being treated for a kidney infection. A debate between Hinson and state Sen. Liz Mathis, which was scheduled for Tuesday, has been canceled.

Republican newcomer Anne Fairchild is running against Democratic community organizer Sami Scheetz for the Iowa House District 78 seat, which largely encompasses southeast Cedar Rapids.

Remarks from two state agency directors came at The Gazette's virtual Iowa Ideas conference, which continues Friday.

A pair of former Iowa broadcast journalists running for an Eastern Iowa congressional seat argued policy over abortion, infrastructure, parental rights and more in their first televised debate before the Nov. 8 general election.

Harriet Hageman, the Trump-backed Republican who defeated Wyoming Congresswoman Liz Cheney in an August primary, stopped in Cedar Rapids to rally GOP supporters head of the midterm elections.

A Polk County jury recently awarded the Republican candidate running to serve as the state’s taxpayer watchdog $1 million in his wrongful termination case against the state's exclusive liquor wholesaler.

A state lawmaker, children’s advocate, wife and mother, Democrat Liz Mathis said she has a track record of putting Iowans first and working across the aisle.