The environmental advocacy group Food & Water Watch has announced a 20-point “clean water blueprint” it says would help protect Iowa’s waterways from toxic levels of nitrate and phosphorous pollution.

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The high temperature was just 18 degrees and breezy in Iowa City on Dec. 19. But Abigail Scheppmann and a coworker were standing outside the closed Starbucks store for hours anyway, waving their ...

WATCH: Iowa denies Satanic Temple’s request for Capitol event Officials at the Iowa Department of Administrative Services have denied the Satanic Temple from hosting an event in the state capitol.

Iowa politicians are sharply divided after the Trump administration used military force over the weekend to bomb Venezuela and abduct Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, flying them to ...

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US Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, the Republican congresswoman for Iowa’s 1st District, recently changed her voter registration to Iowa’s 3rd—despite still representing and running for reelection in ...

The Iowa Farm Bureau has released a statement claiming that the state’s waterways are becoming cleaner, despite evidence that nitrates and phosphates are higher than ever. The chemicals are dangerous ...

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There’s a major shortage of rural doctors, and it won’t get better anytime soon. The VA is also cutting 30,000 doctors and nurses. All information taken from Iowa Workforce Development’s WARN Act ...

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 ...

At a Monday town hall in Keosauqua, US Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-Iowa) told constituents she supports the release of the Epstein files. She said in a July statement that she supports President ...