Iowa has a rather infamous history of plane crashes. Several famous people from the worlds of sports, politics, and, of course, music have lost their lives in the Hawkeye State during aviation-related tragedies. Those losses on top of dozens of others have left a...
Gov. Kim Reynolds made it clear over the weekend that she doesn’t want any other state officials holding her accountable or challenging her perceived dominion over Iowa. During a Saturday event to celebrate the opening of her new campaign office, Reynolds, a...
Hy-Vee confirmed to KCCI on Friday it was laying off another set of employees. The West Des Moines-based grocer told the Des Moines TV station “57 positions were eliminated across corporate offices, including employees from IT, engineering, equipment, real estate,...
According to the Washington Post, US Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) is expected to introduce legislation that would ban abortions nationally at about six weeks. Only six states have laws on the books that ban abortion at six weeks. "A group of Republican senators has...
Iowa’s ever-changing, new election laws can sometimes confuse even the folks in charge of overseeing elections. A commercial from the Iowa Secretary of State’s Office that aired on KCRG Thursday morning incorrectly listed the date when early in-person voting at a...
Council Bluffs once played host to one of the most famous figures in underground crime. Meyer Lansky, AKA “The Mob’s Accountant,” lived seasonally in the Western Iowa city for a period in the early 1940s while he operated the Dodge Park Kennel Club. The dog-racing...
Abortion remains legal in Iowa—for now. In Iowa, a woman has the right to an abortion up until about 20 weeks of her pregnancy. A later-term abortion—unless it is “performed to preserve the life or health of the pregnant person”—is considered a Class C felony in...
Hy-Vee corporate workers who turn down an “offer” to switch to the retail end of the business will still be able to collect unemployment benefits, according to Iowa Code. The West Des Moines-based grocer ran an ad designed to look like a news article in several...
Pottawattamie County residents want a bigger say in how the county uses federal COVID relief dollars after the board of supervisors used $2 million to purchase a ski hill without public input. Calling themselves the Concerned Citizens of Pottawattamie County, the...
Sen. Chuck Grassley won’t support any currently proposed federal legislation that reforms state election laws. Iowa’s senior Republican US senator made that point clear after being pressed by a constituent during a town hall in Pocahontas on Tuesday. “What about...
