Iowa Capital Dispatch
Iowa Secretary of State confirms DOJ election monitors will be in Iowa
Election monitors for the U.S. Department of Justice will be deployed to some Iowa polling locations on Election Day, Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate confirm…
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says feds looking for ways to fund faith-based recovery programs
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Wednesday he supports finding new ways to provide federal funding for faith-based recovery …
DOE to loan up to $5.1 billion to Alliant Energy for Iowa and Wisconsin energy projects
Alliant Energy Corporation has closed a $5.1 billion loan package with the U.S. Department of Energy to fund power generation and energy storage projects in Wi…
Iowa Supreme Court upholds dismissal of former Dordt student appeal in religious discrimination case
The Iowa Supreme Court has upheld a lower court’s dismissal of a Dordt University student’s claim of religious discrimination that stemmed from a request for a…
Unknown amount of liquid fertilizer ended up in ditch leading to Mississippi River
A leak in a liquid fertilizer tank in Lee County has led to an unknown amount of the fertilizer, mixed with rainwater, to enter a drainage ditch leading to a t…
Pharmacy worker’s license revoked due to alleged theft of drugs
State regulators have revoked the license of a Dubuque pharmacy employee for the suspected theft of hundreds of pills. The Iowa Board of Pharmacy recently char…
Trone Garriott, Nunn respond to attack ads on Epstein, transgender issues at debate
Meeting for the sole debate in Iowa’s 3rd Congressional District, U.S. Rep. Zach Nunn and state Sen. Sarah Trone Garriott responded Tuesday to attacks from the…
Sand, Lahn call for increasing mental healthcare access, Medicaid oversight in debate
Both Democrat Rob Sand and Republican Zach Lahn said Tuesday in their final gubernatorial candidate debate that more work was needed to address mental healthca…
Medicaid fraud task force recommends more staff, utilizing false claims act
Iowa’s Medicaid Fraud Elimination Task Force is sending a draft of recommendations to Gov. Kim Reynolds that suggests the state more than double the fraud inve…
Former teacher fights license suspension over alleged incident with student
A former Davenport elementary school teacher is contesting the state’s efforts to suspend his teaching license due to allegations of inappropriate contact with…
Rob Sand says he’d be ‘hesitant’ to use no-bid procurement contracts
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Rob Sand, speaking Tuesday at a business forum, said he was in favor of more “traditional” procurement practices rather than…
Chris Jones says his unconventional campaign is a ‘referendum on water’
Chris Jones, the Democrat running for Iowa secretary of agriculture, said Tuesday that his campaign, which has largely focused on water quality, has shown a “d…
Iowa State University research team works to scale bio-based carbon fiber production
As American politicians and industries look to bring manufacturing to U.S. soil, Iowa State University researchers and their partners are working to scale a me…