Des Moines superintendent resigns after immigration arrest
The superintendent who’s in a western Iowa jail after being arrested by immigration agents last Friday is fighting a deportation order, but not his dismissal from Des Moines public schools.
The superintendent who’s in a western Iowa jail after being arrested by immigration agents last Friday is fighting a deportation order, but not his dismissal from Des Moines public schools.
A University of Iowa education professor who studies why students skip school says she’s encouraged by a new report on a hefty drop in absenteeism in Iowa’s schools, though she
Iowa Lottery CEO Matt Strawn says sales for the new fiscal year are off to a good start in the first two months of the fiscal year at more than
Iowa Department of Revenue director Mary Mosiman says the project to modernize the agency’s computer system is in the fifth and final year. “It started in 2020 to modernize Iowa’s
State Climatologist Justin Glisan says during a federal government shut down he and other state climatologists around the country will pitch in and cover some National Weather Service functions. “We’ve
The U.S.D.A. crop report says warm weather helped crops mature and the early harvest is running ahead of last year. The report says 15% of the corn is harvested statewide
The federal government faces a widespread shutdown at midnight tonight due to a partisan impasse over spending and health care, while Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley, a Republican, says “Democrats are
A jury trial is set for a Sac City man accused of assaulting former Sac County Sheriff Jonathan Meyer. Thirty-four-year-old Matthew Birt will stand trial Nov. 4 at the Sac

The Storm Lake City Council officially acknowledged the 2025 mid-year report, following a unanimous vote earlier this month. The mid-year report serves to update the public on progress toward council-established
The northwest Iowa journalist who won the Pulitzer Prize in 2017 for his editorials about the state’s water pollution problem is releasing a new book that’s highly critical of Iowa’s
