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Gavin McGough/Iowa Public RadioSamples from 41 taps across five eastern Iowa cities show wide disparities in what residents are drinking. A Cedar Falls-based environmental scientist conducted a study to better understand how nitrate levels vary in the region. -
Eliza Billingham/Iowa Public RadioRepublican incumbent Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks faces Democrat Christina Bohannan for the third time in a race for eastern Iowa's 1st Congressional District. They've both signed the American Cancer Society's "cancer promise," but have different ideas about how to fulfill it.
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Indianola is the third city in Iowa to discontinue its use of Flock cameras after controversy over who has access to the automated license plate readers’ data. -
The loss of the historic Mississippi River Bridge at Lansing in December 2025 stranded the remote communities of northeast Iowa and southwest Wisconsin. This summer, residents and business owners have adapted — and advocated — as they wait for the replacement to open. -
Decades after Terri McCauley was killed in Sioux City, a jury could not reach a verdict in the first-degree murder trial of a man accused of her 1983 death. Her family said the mistrial is a setback, but their push for justice isn’t over. -
Iowa Public Radio's Board of Directors announced that Peter Clowney will take over as CEO from Myrna Johnson, who retired in July. -
After hearing from community members who wanted a one-year pause on data centers, the Salix City Council rejected a proposed moratorium. Google is considering a project near the small town. -
Republican gubernatorial candidate Zach Lahn met with cancer survivors and advocates to discuss Iowa's growing cancer rate three weeks after Democratic opponent Rob Sand. -
U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth visited the Iowa State Fair on Monday to tout support for U.S. Rep. Zach Nunn and to promote his $1.5 trillion defense budget proposal. Hegseth called Nunn an ally in Congress for military spending and the department's war efforts. -
U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. joined U.S. Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks in central Iowa to discuss the Trump administration's emphasis on fitness in K-12 schools. -
With most foreign students paying full tuition, campuses will lose out as the numbers of international students decrease. Meanwhile, students worry as new restrictions about how long they can stay in the U.S. are set to go into effect. -
U.S. Senate candidates Republican Ashley Hinson, Democrat Josh Turek and Libertarian Thomas Laehn spoke at the Des Moines Register Political Soapbox during the first days of the state fair.
