Negotiators are striking final deals on a more than $9.4 billion state budget and the 2025 Iowa legislative session could draw to a close tonight or early tomorrow. Legislators have
In a little over two months, thousands of bicycle riders will be trekking the roads of northern Iowa during the weeklong adventure called RAGBRAI, the Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride
A microbiologist from Brazil is the recipient of the 2025 Des Moines-based World Food Prize. Mariangela Hungria is the 10th woman to be named a World Food Prize Laureate. Mashal
The Democratic presidential candidate who won the 2020 Iowa Caucuses says he’s “not running for anything,” but Pete Buttigieg is offering advice for how the party should respond to the
The Iowa House and Senate have agreed to redirect $2.5 million that’s sitting unused in the Iowa Brucellosis and Tuberculosis Eradication Fund. The fund was created to test for the
The Iowa Senate has confirmed one of the members of the Iowa Utilities Commission to another term. Joshua Byrnes, a former member of the Iowa House, has served on the
The implementation of the Real ID driver’s license requirement for flying led to record numbers of people visiting DOT driver’s license offices. DOT Motor Vehicles Division director Kathleen Meradith-Eyers says
The Iowa legislature has sent the governor a bill that would override city and county ordinances that ban fireworks on Independence Day. Representative Bill Gustoff, a Republican from Des Moines,
The Iowa DNR has released fish kill numbers from a spill last month in the south Branch of Lizard Creek in Fort Dodge. The DNR says 71,933 fish were killed
A group of high schoolers in the Quad Cities has built a two-seater airplane that’s ready to take to the skies. The PNB Aviation Club is made up of students
