11+ hour, 9+ min ago   (966+ words) IOWA CITY -- Candidates vying for Iowa state and federal government positions joined football fans in Iowa City Saturday to engage with supporters before the football game between the Iowa Hawkeyes and Iowa State Cyclones. U.S. Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks held her annual…...

23+ hour, 20+ min ago   (575+ words) Each of Iowa's public universities are increasing their funding requests to the state for the first time in years as the institutions work to keep rising costs off students' backs. The University of Iowa, Iowa State University and the University…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (752+ words) Iowa's public universities have welcomed thousands of students back to campus this fall, with each institution touting either increased interest, enrollment or retention. Of Iowa's three public universities, only the University of Northern Iowa welcomed a larger first-year and total…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (679+ words) Lt. Gov. Chris Cournoyer speaks briefly at the Tom Mead farm northwest of Marshalltown on Wednesday. She is the Republican candidate for state auditor in the November election. As part of the Keep Iowa Growing tour, Iowa Secretary of Agriculture…...

5+ day, 11+ hour ago   (756+ words) PALO -- The U.S. Department of Energy has closed on a loan of up to $1.9 billion to support the restart of Iowa's only nuclear energy station, Duane Arnold Energy Center. U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy James Danly said Tuesday in Palo the "unmothballing…...

6+ day, 11+ hour ago   (579+ words) IOWA CITY -- Kamari Moulton ran for a career-high 183 yards and two touchdowns and No. 22 Iowa's defense shut down Northern Illinois in a 40-0 victory Saturday in the season opener for both teams. Moulton, Iowa's leading rusher last season, passed his previous…...

6+ day, 23+ hour ago   (754+ words) As the United States honored the efforts of its labor movement and workers over the weekend, Iowa labor experts say workers are "making the labor movement every day," amidst weaker bargaining laws, attacks from corporations and other challenges everyone is…...

6+ day, 11+ hour ago   (1245+ words) Every August, for over half a century, Iowa Department of Natural Resource staff have set out along gravel roads at dawn, armed with a set of binoculars and, now, an interactive logging application, to survey the landscape for pheasants and…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (1150+ words) Iowa Environmental Council's annual "condition of the state" report on Iowa's electric generation shows that while wind continues to dominate Iowa's electricity generation sources, there has been a "reversal" in the state's progress to meet energy demand with renewable sources....

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (490+ words) Less than 10% of Iowa corn acres have reached the mature stage as of the latest crop progress and condition report, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture anticipates some reports of harvested acres to appear in the next weekly report. According to…...