Ty Rushing

Iowa is known for its rich soil, and a group of Mormon researchers hope that same soil holds the secrets to a lost sacred city. The Heartland Research Group thinks it may have found the site of Zarahemla—a notable city in the Book of Mormon—outside of Montrose, a small southeast Iowa town located on the…

The wife of a defeated Boone City Council candidate is accused of assaulting three people—including one of whom she blamed for her husband’s loss—following Monday’s Boone Utility Commission meeting. According to a criminal complaint, Amy Rasmussen, 54, took exception to the way Boone resident April Burch—who is also her cousin—spoke about her husband, Todd Rasmussen,…

Republican State Sen. Jake Chapman has vowed to create legislation to criminally penalize teachers and school staffers with felonies for distributing materials he considers “obscene.” Chapman, who is president of the Iowa Senate, says his definition of obscene is based on Iowa Code Chapter 728. The materials in question: Books penned by authors of color…

When asked what career fields will have a lot of good-paying jobs to fill after the passage of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, Craig Levine’s answer was simple: “All.” “Everything, I mean from the person doing the dirt work to clear up the old highway to the person putting in the new highway to…

Iowa labor leaders expect a tremendous boost in construction work and the economy following the signing of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which will bring about $5 billion in federal money to the state. “This is the greatest single piece of legislation for the American worker in 80 years—since the New Deal,” said Jeff…

School boards handle a variety of issues from approving milk contracts to voting on building projects, but opposition to mask mandates and diversity standards seemed to be the biggest talking points in many Iowa races, and Ankeny and Waukee were no exception. Ankeny’s top three vote-getters in last Tuesday’s school board election were conservatives Joy…

United Auto Workers (UAW) members rejected a second six-year contract from John Deere on Tuesday, meaning they will remain on strike. More than 10,000 UAW members—a bulk of whom are in Iowa—have been on strike since Oct. 14 in a showdown with the multinational manufacturer over wages, benefits, retirement benefits, improved working conditions, and more.…

Rick Bick won’t have to worry about trying to illegally bar LGBTQ events in Ottumwa as he was defeated by Rick Johnson in Tuesday’s mayoral contest. Johnson captured 2,272 votes to Bick’s 1,026 votes. During a forum before the election, Bick compared LGBTQ people to pedophiles and his comments were heavily criticized by local and…

Waterloo Mayor Quentin Hart beat two opponents to secure his fourth two-year term. Hart defeated challengers Margaret Klein and Sophia Mays and captured 7,786 votes with all precincts reporting, according to unofficial results from the Black Hawk County Auditor’s Office. Klein had 5,456 votes while Mays received 154 votes. [inline-ad id=”0″] This was Hart’s first…

A new congressional report details just how bad coronavirus outbreaks were at meatpacking plants in Iowa and across the country. The National Beef plant in Tama, for example, had a 44% infection rate as 379 of the facility’s 857 workers contracted the virus. Across the river from Sioux City in Dakota City, Nebraska, the Tyson…