Republicans have retained a seat in the Iowa House vacant since January after former Rep. Martin Graber unexpectedly died of a heart attack. Republican Blaine Watkins, a legislative aide to Sen.

House lawmakers passed a measure 67-28 Wednesday to require at least 80% of students admitted to the University of Iowa’s medical and dentistry colleges to be Iowa residents or people enrolled at Iowa ...

House Bill 793 would allow local schools to block undocumented kids from enrolling. Schools would not be required to do so, however. GOP sponsors want to pass a law to challenge a longstanding U.S ...

The Iowa House passed legislation Monday raising the penalties for the crime of exposing minors to obscene materials after changing the bill to lower charges for minors who expose their peers to such ...

Two hotly debated bills broadly pertaining to parental rights faced different fates in the Montana House this week. The bills came from conservative Belgrade lawmakers who are brothers.

MOUNT PLEASANT, Iowa — A counselor at the Mount Pleasant Correctional Facility has been charged with sexually exploiting an inmate in the prison. According to court documents, 46-year-old ...

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Under Iowa law, a person convicted of a Class B felony can be sentenced up to 25 years in prison and fined up to $100,000. Established in 1976, the Mount Pleasant Correctional Facility is a minimum ...

"No family is ever prepared for such a devastating loss, and during this time of unimaginable grief, we are also facing the overwhelming cost of laying Derrick to rest," organizers of a GoFundMe ...

House lawmakers advanced HSB 266 out of the state government committee Wednesday, while the Senate scratched SF 272 from committee discussions. The bill would redefine the definition of cancer to ...

It will not advance in the Iowa House. A bill that would ban camping or sleeping on public property is likely dead for the session. The legislation passed out of a House subcommittee Wednesday ...

A specialty grocery store is close to opening its first Lowcountry location in Mount Pleasant's Bowman Place Shopping Center. The Fresh Market has placed a "Now hiring" sign outside its future ...