Covering Iowa from stalk to statehouse.
Covering Iowa from stalk to statehouse.
ALGONA — A 170-year ceasefire between the north and south portions of Kossuth County collapsed Tuesday after an old map showing Iowa’s former 100th county circulated online. Residents of the former Bancroft County accused those in the southern part of…
DES MOINES — The Iowa State Fair Butter Cow says it is feeling healthier, moving easier and looking forward to returning to the Agriculture Building next month after losing 50 pounds on a GLP-1 medication. The iconic sculpture began treatment…
DES MOINES — A 28-year-old IT professional died suddenly Friday after a female coworker asked why the office Wi-Fi was not working. Witnesses said a look of profound despair immediately came across the face of 28-year-old Zachary Messersmith. He opened…
MARSHALLTOWN — A local man returned home shaken but triumphant Friday after completing an entire grocery trip without encountering a former coworker, distant relative, high school classmate or person whose name he could not remember. “I kept waiting for it,”…
WASHINGTON — Democratic National Committee officials assured Iowa voters Friday that removing the state from the early presidential calendar was part of a bold new strategy to eventually become more popular in places exactly like Iowa. “We’ve spent several election…
NEW YORK — The WNBA Players Association announced Thursday that players would boycott all games until the league agreed to restore the peaceful, pre-Caitlin Clark era while preserving charter flights, sold-out arenas, billion-view social media clips, lucrative television contracts and…
WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Zach Nunn successfully protected a constituent from unwanted attention Thursday by creating a highly shareable confrontation expected to identify the man to significantly more people than the original video ever would have. Witnesses said Nunn noticed…
OTTUMWA — Local resident Brenda Keller confirmed Tuesday that the city’s decades-long struggle to attract visitors could be solved by constructing the exact same attraction people are currently driving somewhere else to experience. Keller said a lazy river at The…
DES MOINES — After years of struggling with unpaid bills, default judgments and foreclosure proceedings, Iowa farmer Derek Wulf reportedly discovered an innovative financial strategy this summer: becoming useful to a statewide political campaign. “Banks hate this,” said Wulf, watching…
ALBIA — Rejecting reports that it had suffered a structural failure, a downtown Albia building clarified Tuesday that its highly visible collapse was an intentional educational demonstration aimed at anyone who had spent the last three decades describing its condition…