After a mass shooting at an elementary school and a domestic-violence double homicide in Ames, some US senators have put together a set of new firearms rules they think might be able to get enough Republicans on board to pass into law. A group of 20 senators—10...
Elected officials and progressive organizers called out a major Iowa employer they say is directly contributing to higher food prices in the US. Tyson Foods, which operates several large meatpacking plants in Iowa, was taken to task Friday for, among other things,...
I’m hiking every state park or other cool hiking place I can think of around my home state, to showcase the natural beauty Iowa has to offer. Follow along here, or on social media using #AmieTakesAHike, to pass along your suggestions and see where I’m headed next....
The lone supplier for Iowa's medical cannabis program announced in June it changed its name. MedPharm Iowa, which has operated growing operations and laboratories for medical cannabidiol in the state since 2018, now goes by Bud & Mary's as it expands past the...
A package of stricter gun control bills aimed at preventing mass shootings such as what happened at an Uvalde, Texas, elementary school, passed the US House of Representatives on a mostly party-line vote on Wednesday. Cindy Axne, Iowa's lone Democratic...
Barring some outlandish or criminal behavior while in office, the sitting governor typically backs the sitting legislators in their own party during a primary election. But after her much-touted school voucher bill failed to gain traction in the Iowa Legislature...
The man who killed two women before turning the gun on himself outside of an Ames church had previously been accused of domestic violence and sexual abuse, and had once been ordered to complete an anger management course, but was still able to legally own and carry...
Around 390,000 jobs were added in the US in May, according to the latest jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics released Friday. The highest sector adding jobs was leisure and hospitality, which tacked on 84,000 positions, though that's still well below...
A major employer in Waterloo is offshoring some of its operations to Mexico to make room for new products, though the company was tight-lipped about potential layoffs. John Deere announced Wednesday to its Tractor and Cab Assembly Operations workers in Waterloo it...
A lawyer for former President Donald Trump wanted to utilize US Sen. Chuck Grassley in a plan to decertify presidential electors in states that President Joe Biden won, eventually aiming to install Trump instead. The congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6...
