SNAP benefits will not be issued starting on November 1. Here’s how that’s impacting Iowans. The widespread effects of the ...

Former Iowa House Minority Leader Jennifer Konfrst has spent a lot of time talking to Iowa farmers during her campaign for US Rep. Zach Nunn's seat. And the farmers ...

Iowa working family advocates are calling on lawmakers to expand a measure that provides paid leave for state employees who are sick or taking care of loved ones. But the measure does not extend to ...

Thousands of dollars worth of ground pork were donated to local food banks. Here are all the details. As thousands of Iowa families face tough choices without their usual SNAP benefits, Fareway Stores ...

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources has just completed taking public input as it considers strengthening Iowa drinking water standards. The state’s waterways have long been contaminated with high ...

WATCH: Des Moines has a chance to give its public schools $265 million Residents of Des Moines have a chance to give their public schools $265 million to fund free full-day preschool, career training ...

Iowa's DOGE task force recommended changes to the public employee pension system.

Open enrollment starts in 2 days. And 137,000 Iowans are about to see their healthcare premiums double—or worse. Rep. J.D. Scholten and Senate Democrats are sounding the alarm. Here's what's at stake.

The government shutdown is holding up food assistance. Health care subsidies threaten to make the Affordable Care Act unaffordable for many Iowans. State Senate hopeful Renee Hardman of West Des ...

Amie Rivers is Iowa Starting Line's newsletter editor. She writes the weekly Worker’s Almanac edition of Iowa Starting Line, featuring a roundup of the worker news you need to know. Previously, she ...

Saturday is Nov. 1, and Nov. 1 is when the monthlong federal government shutdown—assuming it hasn’t been lifted—will become very personal and very real. There are two big reasons for that. First: Nov.

Some 40 years ago, my mother donated a 1915 landscape plan to the State Historical Society of Iowa’s (SHSI) library in Iowa City. The plan, a rare surviving hand-painted sketch by landscape architect ...