Iowa Legislature

CEDAR FALLS, Iowa -- Back in 1969, the Rolling Stones produced the classic song, "You Can't Always Get What You Want." As the public looks at the tax reduction bill hammered out in the Iowa Legislature, reaction seems to be similar to a line from that...

Liberal groups see time running short for a chance to expand Medicaid in Iowa. That's why several organizations teamed up for a small rally Wednesday at the Waterloo Public Library in an effort to put pressure on Gov. Terry Branstad and Iowa House...

Iowa Rep. Jack Drake, R-Griswold, said the Iowa Legislature is moving slowly because there isn't a lot of agreement between the Iowa Senate and Iowa House of Representatives. Sen. Hubert Houser, R-Carson, didn't disagree. The two Iowa lawmakers talked...

At 4 a.m. on June 5, 2007, Micah Matthews broke into a 50-year-old woman's Iowa City home, woke her and forced her at gunpoint to drive to an ATM and withdraw cash. Matthews then pistol-whipped her, sexually assaulted her and bound her wrists and ankles...

CEDAR FALLS, Iowa -- Marv Diemer was a man on a mission -- right up to the day he died Tuesday at age 88 after a sudden illness. Whether debating a bill on the floor of the Iowa Legislature, helping build a bike trail in Cedar Falls or lobbying the U.S....

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Animal welfare groups reacted with outrage Wednesday after the Iowa Legislature made the state the first to approve a bill making it a crime to surreptitiously get into a farming operation to record video of animal abuse. The...

The Big One is still 52 weeks away, but the results from a host of local elections today may offer fresh clues about the state of play in politics just as the presidential nominating process is set to begin. At stake on this "off-year" general election...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Efforts to outlaw the undercover recording of animal abuse in livestock operations appear to have stalled in Iowa and other states in the face of complaints that the proposals were intended primarily to protect the industry with...

 DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Efforts to outlaw the undercover recording of animal abuse in livestock operations appear to have stalled in Iowa and other states in the face of complaints that the proposals were intended primarily to protect the...

The push for "Nick's Law" started with plenty of emotion and political muscle. The death of Nick Bisignano offered a textbook example of the tragic mix of underage drinking and speeding. The 17-year-old son of a former state lawmaker--a friend of the...

On a bicycle trail in rural Iowa, life is busting out all over. Just outside Yale, a doe crashed out of the brush and bounded onto freshly plowed fields. Warblers zoomed back and forth across the trail, twittering, as female cardinals sought out twigs...