Latest Iowa state government News

Iowa attorney general not finished with audit that's holding up contraception money for rape victims

Mar. 27, 2024 13:43 PM EDT

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa attorney general’s office said it is still working on an audit of its victim services that has held up emergency contraception funding for victims of sexual assault. Attorney General Brenna Bird, a Republican, paused the funding while awaiting the...

Sex ed classes in some states may soon watch a fetal development video from an anti-abortion group

Feb. 22, 2024 12:13 PM EST

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Baby Olivia isn't a real baby. It's an animated fetus that develops over the course of a three-minute video that has become a new front in state-level abortion politics. Bills in the Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri and West Virginia legislatures would require...

Move to strip gender rights from Iowa's civil rights law rejected by legislators

Jan. 31, 2024 16:42 PM EST

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa lawmakers on Wednesday declined to advance a bill that would have stripped gender identity from the state’s civil rights law, a proposal that opponents said could have subjected LGBTQ+ Iowans to discrimination in education, housing and public spaces. ...

Students rally at the Iowa Capitol days after Perry school shooting

Jan. 08, 2024 21:46 PM EST

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — This year's Iowa legislative session kicked off Monday with student protestors filling the Capitol rotunda to call for stricter gun laws just days after a school shooting in Perry, Iowa, that left one 11-year-old boy dead and seven other people wounded. ...