While poinsettias have an undeserved reputation for being poisonous, as you’d have to eat a few hundred poinsettia leaves to ...

An eastern Iowa man was at the Iowa Lottery’s main office in central Iowa today to claim a $1 million prize. Iowa Lottery officials announced this afternoon that William Zak of Dysart bought at ...

If you had hand-held video games, watches or any other electronics under your tree, those shiny, button-sized batteries were likely in the box, too, and those batteries can be a critical problem if a ...

A Ventura firefighter was struck and injured by a vehicle that was traveling through a crash scene just west of the intersection of US Highway 18 and North Main Street in Ventura last night. The Clear ...

The plane carrying the remains of two Iowa National Guard soldiers killed in Syria on December 13 landed early this afternoon at the Des Moines Airport. Iowa National Guard leaders and Governor Kim ...

A nonprofit dedicated to literacy and health education is placing 30,000 books in pediatric clinics statewide for free distribution to Iowa children. Laura Holms, the Midwest regional director for ...

A special election next Tuesday, December 30, will fill a vacancy in the Iowa Senate. Democrat Clair Celsi of West Des Moines, who had been a senator since 2019, died in October at the age of 59.

There’s a long-standing rumor about the red-and-green flowers traditionally associated with Christmas being deadly if eaten. Janna Day, a nurse and the education and outreach manager at the Iowa ...

As we approach New Year’s Eve, a common resolution is to get in better shape, and an Iowa State University psychology professor is studying ways to help make exercise a habit we enjoy. Dr. Alison ...

Tyler Roehl is returning to Iowa State as offensive coordinator after a one-year stint with the Detroit Lions. Roehl previously served as assistant head coach and running backs coach for the Cyclones ...

Woodbury County Board of Supervisors Chairman Dan Bittinger (Woodbury County photo) MidAmerican Energy is pulling the plug on a wind farm it had proposed in northwest Iowa. Woodbury County Board of ...