DES MOINES — The deaths of two Anamosa State Penitentiary staff members during an escape attempt continue to reverberate at the Capitol as leg…
DES MOINES — The Iowa House approved changes Thursday to allow state commissioners of elections to mail absentee ballot requests to registered…
A roundup of campaign news items of interest for Tuesday, June 11, 2019:
DES MOINES — The Iowa Legislature gave final approval Saturday to a $1.94 billion health and human services budget despite emotional oppositio…
DES MOINES — Gov. Kim Reynolds is “100 percent pro-life” but her staff said Wednesday she is withholding judgment on a restrictive abortion bi…
DES MOINES — Prior to the 2016 election, political advocacy groups funded by billionaire brothers from Kansas donated tens of thousands of dol…
DES MOINES — After debating a voter ID bill for more than five hours Monday, Rep. Bruce Hunter wasn’t about to ignore its $700,000 cost.
DES MOINES — Many times, state lawmakers are in complete agreement on legislation, and a bill passes unanimously. Many times, a bill divides l…
DES MOINES — A Republican whose support for Iowa’s collective bargaining law is frequently cited by Democrats has called on them to quit misqu…
DES MOINES — With Secretary of State Paul Pate’s Election Integrity Act still in draft stage, Democrats on the House State Government Committe…
A roundup of legislative and Capitol news items for Tuesday:
DES MOINES — Religious leaders and state lawmakers tried Monday to navigate the area between religious freedom and individual civil liberties.
DES MOINES — Although it was approved on a largely party-line vote in the GOP-controlled House, a bill changing the deadline for Iowa voters t…
A roundup of legislative and Capitol news items for Thursday:
A roundup of Iowa legislative and Capitol news items for Wednesday:
DES MOINES — On a party-line vote, Iowa House Democrats on Monday unsuccessfully tried to write Republican Gov. Terry Branstad’s executive ord…
DES MOINES — The Iowa House passed wide-ranging legislation Wednesday aimed at attracting military veterans to work and live in Iowa.
DES MOINES — One Iowa is throwing a bash on April 5 that already has generated some buzz on the floor of the Iowa House of Representatives.
DES MOINES — State lawmakers took action Tuesday intended to toughen penalties for kidnapping a minor in Iowa in the wake of a high-profile ca…
DES MOINES — Iowa Secretary of State Matt Schultz will ask the Legislature for $140,000 to pursue voter fraud for another year despite openly …
NATIONAL APPOINTMENT: Stephen Larson, Iowa Alcoholic Beverages Division administrator, has been elected vice chairman for the National Alcohol…
Illinois' legalization of marijuana for medical purposes will boil down to conversations between a physician and a patient, a Quad-City doctor…
SPRINGFIELD — Businessman Bruce Hunter is seeing green in the state's new medical marijuana law.
DES MOINES — Legislation that provoked a partisan shouting match Monday over who was doing more to protect Iowans from sex offenders sailed th…
