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

Orient-Macksburg School Board approves the resolution to dissolve, but voters will make the final decision. Silence filled the room after Orient-Macksburg School Board members made the hardest ...

Over 30,000 applications were approved for the second year of Iowa’s taxpayer-funded private school tuition vouchers, according to Gov. Kim Reynolds. Gov. Kim Reynolds announced that more than 30,000 ...

The cost of attending a private K-12 school in Iowa will go up for many families in the 2023-24 school year even after Iowa Republicans at Gov. Kim Reynolds’ behest approved using hundreds of millions ...

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 ...

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 ...

After Waterloo, Iowa, retiree Rosetta Robinson’s daughter had a baby, the two moved out of the small apartment they shared together, expecting to get a more spacious home within a few months. That was ...

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 ...

Cargill strike news: The Cedar Rapids company and Teamsters Local 238 have ratified an agreement to end the monthlong strike. The union sent out a statement on the afternoon of Halloween, Oct. 31, ...

Thanks to federal legislation, another manufacturer is returning to Iowa. The Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy plant in Fort Madison is now rehiring workers and plans to restart production next year.

A $3,500 payment from US Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks’ campaign to her son was a mistake, her campaign says—money that should have come from her personal account, not from campaign donors. US Rep.

New data from the National Library of Medicine show nitrates in Iowa’s waterways reached toxic levels earlier than scientists first thought. The state is currently in the process of evaluating state ...