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Iowa Supreme Court rules in University of Iowa scholarship case
1 days ago
<img width="150" height="150" src="https://cdn.radioiowa.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Court_800x450-150x150.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="" style="display: block;margin-bottom: 5px;clear:both;max-width: 100%" />The Iowa Supreme Court says the University of Iowa cannot modify a scholarship designated for black students to make it comply with a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action. Ezra Totton, who was black, donated money for the scholarship in his will when he died in 1997 after getting his doctorate at the UI. […]
Read MoreSand suggests Lahn should have run for governor in another state
1 days ago
<img width="150" height="150" src="https://cdn.radioiowa.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/RobSandIowaPressNov2025IowaPBS-photo-150x150.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="" style="display: block;margin-bottom: 5px;clear:both;max-width: 100%" />Democrat Rob Sand says Zach Lahn, his Republican opponent in the governor’s race, should have run for governor of Kansas rather than Iowa. Lahn, a northwest Iowa native, says he moved back to Iowa in 2023 and he registered to vote in Iowa’s 2024 election. The Des Moines Register has reported Lahn flies back and […]
Read MoreIowa farmers call for renewal of US trade deal with Canada and Mexico
1 days ago
<img width="150" height="150" src="https://cdn.radioiowa.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Corn-mature-150x150.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="" style="display: block;margin-bottom: 5px;clear:both;max-width: 100%" />Livestock producers and farmers from Iowa are urging federal officials to renew a massive trade deal. The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement went into effect in 2020 and includes a mandatory review in July. Bob Hemesath grows corn and raises hogs in northeast Iowa and moderated this week’s Farmers for Free Trade panel in Des Moines. “At […]
Read MoreTroopers: Teen driver is killed in SW Iowa crash after running stop sign
2 days ago
<img width="150" height="150" src="https://cdn.radioiowa.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/State-Patrol-car-back-150x150.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="" style="display: block;margin-bottom: 5px;clear:both;max-width: 100%" />One person died in a crash Thursday afternoon in southwest Iowa’s Union County. According to the Iowa State Patrol, an SUV driven by 19-year-old Tanner Richardson, of Tingley, was traveling east on 265th Street at around 2:45 p.m., and failed to stop at the posted intersection with Warbler Avenue. The vehicle collided with a car […]
Read More2020 Caucus winner Buttigieg to headline Iowa Democrats’ fundraiser
2 days ago
<img width="150" height="150" src="https://cdn.radioiowa.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/ButtigiegAmes2019RIphoto-150x150.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="" style="display: block;margin-bottom: 5px;clear:both;max-width: 100%" />The Democrat who won the 2020 Iowa Caucuses is returning to the state to headline the Iowa Democratic Party’s biggest fundraiser of the year. Pete Buttigieg will be the keynote speaker at the party’s Liberty and Justice Celebration July 12 in Altoona. It’s an annual event and has featured Democrats pondering a run for the […]
Read MoreRustic wildlife area, home to rare turtles & salamanders, is Iowa’s newest park
2 days ago
<img width="150" height="150" src="https://cdn.radioiowa.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Polk-County-Conservation-photo-by-Steve-Daggs-150x150.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="" style="display: block;margin-bottom: 5px;clear:both;max-width: 100%" />A rare event is scheduled in central Iowa tomorrow, the grand opening of an 1,100-acre wildlife area, the single largest park acquisition in Polk County Conservation history. Jessica Lown, the agency’s community outreach supervisor, says the vast landscape known as the Brenton Slough, north of Grimes and near the Dallas County border, has been privately […]
Read MoreIowa Auditor’s Office finds ‘a mess’ in Madison County
2 days ago
<img width="150" height="150" src="https://cdn.radioiowa.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/RobSandJune4NewsConferenceRIphoto-150x150.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="" style="display: block;margin-bottom: 5px;clear:both;max-width: 100%" />The State Auditor’s Office has identified serious discrepancies in Madison County’s financial records. “These are not minor findings. This is a big deal,” State Auditor Rob Sand said during a news conference this afternoon in his statehouse office. “…Taxpayers in Madison County deserve better.” Auditors combed through records from a 24 month period, from June […]
Read MoreWorst area of Iowa drought gone, but overall dry conditions expand
2 days ago
<img width="150" height="150" src="https://cdn.radioiowa.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Drought-Monitor-6426-150x150.jpeg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="" style="display: block;margin-bottom: 5px;clear:both;max-width: 100%" />The latest U.S. Drought Monitor map shows dry conditions expanded in Iowa in the last week of May. The DNR’s Jessica Reese McIntyre says while things expanded overall, we did see the worst drought area go away. “The little pockets of severe drought in northwest Iowa were recently alleviated,” she says. We went from around […]
Read MoreReynolds rejects new rules for Iowa high schoolers taking community college classes
2 days ago
<img width="150" height="150" src="https://cdn.radioiowa.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Reynolds2026April7RIphoto-150x150.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="" style="display: block;margin-bottom: 5px;clear:both;max-width: 100%" />Governor Reynolds has rejected two new rules for students who are taking community college classes while they’re still in high school. School districts cover the costs for those college classes and a bill Reynolds vetoed would have let school boards ask parents to reimburse the district if their child fails or drops out of a […]
Read MoreIowa residents can go fishing without a license this weekend
2 days ago
<img width="150" height="150" src="https://cdn.radioiowa.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Fishing-DNR-photo-150x150.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="" style="display: block;margin-bottom: 5px;clear:both;max-width: 100%" />Iowans need to have their poles, nets and bait ready, as the first weekend in June means Free Fishing Weekend in Iowa. Joe Larscheid, chief of the Iowa Department of Natural Resources Fisheries Bureau, says anyone who’s a resident of Iowa can fish without a license on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. “It’s just a good […]
Read MoreMissouri teen identified as victim in fatal semi-train crash in Poweshiek County
2 days ago
<img width="150" height="150" src="https://cdn.radioiowa.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/State-Trooper-SUV-RI-photo-DD-150x150.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="" style="display: block;margin-bottom: 5px;clear:both;max-width: 100%" />The Iowa State Patrol has identifed the victim in a fatal semi-train accident in Poweshiek County. The Patrol accident report says 14-year-old Robert Orton of Palmyra, Missouri, was a passenger in the semi and died at the scene. The truck was driven by his 38-year-old father Michael Orton, and the report says Orton failed to […]
Read MoreTurek won 96 counties, Lahn won 21 of 36 counties in Feenstra’s congressional district
3 days ago
<img width="150" height="150" src="https://cdn.radioiowa.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Election2026RIgraphic-150x150.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="" style="display: block;margin-bottom: 5px;clear:both;max-width: 100%" />Unofficial results from the Iowa Secretary of State indicate nearly a fifth of the state’s registered voters participated in the 2026 Primary Election. The state website doesn’t yet show the party breakdown in that overall number, but there are clues. Over 212,000 Republicans voted in the race for governor, the most for any Republican contest […]
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