Dec. 16, 2024 13:19 PM EST
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds appointed state Sen. Chris Cournoyer to be her lieutenant governor Monday, more than three months after her first and only No. 2 in elected office resigned to take over the state bankers association.
Cournoyer was elected to the Iowa...
Dec. 11, 2024 20:02 PM EST
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Former U.S. Rep. Jim Leach, who served 30 years as a politician from eastern Iowa and later headed the National Endowment for the Humanities, died Wednesday. He was 82.
Leach, whose death was confirmed by an Iowa City funeral home, represented Iowa as a...
Nov. 03, 2024 21:39 PM EST
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A federal judge ruled Sunday that Iowa can continue challenging the validity of hundreds of ballots from potential noncitizens even though critics said the effort threatens the voting rights of people who’ve recently become U.S. citizens.
U.S. District...