DES MOINES, IOWA (October 9, 2025) — Governor Kim Reynolds has issued a proclamation setting Tuesday, December 30, 2025, as the date for a special election in Iowa Senate District 16 following the death of Iowa
DES MOINES, IOWA (October 9, 2025) — Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird was joined by nineteen other attorneys-general as she filed emergency briefs supporting President Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops to Portland, and by seventeen other attorneys-general supporting deployment of troops to Chicago to stop the violent attacks on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facilities and agents.
BETTENDORF, IOWA (October 8, 2025) — The public is invited to attend a Bettendorf School Board Candidate Forum at 6:30PM, on Wednesday, October 22, moderated and broadcast by KWQC-TV6.
The forum, hosted by the Bettendorf Community School District, will take place at the Bettendorf High School Performing Arts Center, 3333 18th Street.
This year, eight candidates are running for four open seats on the Board of Education:
DES MOINES, IOWA (October 8, 2025) — Attorney General Brenna Bird joined a coalition of twelve states urging Meta to answer questions about the seemingly-unfettered distribution of graphic livestreams and videos on Facebook and Instagram of the violent terrorist attacks by Hamas on Israel on October 7, 2023.
WASHINGTON DC (October 8, 2025) — Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) today welcomed the confirmation of David Waterman to be the US At
DAVENPORT, IOWA (October 7, 2025) — With the city primary now behind them, Davenport voters can look ahead to the Davenport City Elections Candidate Forum, 6-8PM (doors open at 5:30PM) to hear directly from those seeking office. A public candidate forum will be held on Wednesday, October 29, 6-8PM, at St Ambrose University’s Rogalski Center.
DES MOINES, IOWA (October 3, 2025) — Attorney General Brenna Bird has announced that she joined a bipartisan coalition of 31 states and the District of Columbia to support a Georgia law that limits addictive practices directed at minors by social media companies.
DES MOINES, IOWA (October 1, 2025) — Governor Kim Reynolds has announced she has appointed Mark Campbell as director of the Iowa Department of Administrative Services effective October 6, 2025.
A Fort Dodge native, Campbell is a small-business-owner who has also served his community for more than a decade as a Webster County Supervisor from 2013 to 2024.
MILAN, ILLINOIS (August 4, 2025) — Kermit Thomas has been a Quad City resident since 2013, raising his three children as a single father in Moline. For twenty-seven years, he served our country as an Army Logistics Officer. Now it is time for him to serve the great and hardworking people of western Illinois.
DES MOINES, IOWA(June 30, 2025) — A new report published over the weekend by the Trump administration’s Bureau of Economic Analysis found that Iowa’s real gross domestic product shrank at the worst rate in the nation in the first quarter, declining by 6.1 percent.
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