By MEG KINNARD and MAYA SWEEDLER Ahead of next year’s midterms, a number of members from both major parties have already ...

Retirements, bids for higher office and contested primaries mean the 2026 campaign has begun in a host of Polk County races ...

Medusa plates, ‘Challenger Reports, vol. 4’ (1882), Royal Society Edinburgh Archive (all images from ‘Art Forms from the Abyss: Ernst Haeckel’s Images From The HMS Challenger Expedition,’ courtesy ...

URBANDALE — Mike Naig on Wednesday defended the state’s work addressing water quality in Iowa during his tenure as agriculture secretary and characterized a potential challenger in next year’s ...

Iowa agriculture secretary Mike Naig speaks to the Westside Conservative Club at Machine Shed Restaurant in Urbandale on Wednesday. (Erin Murphy/The Gazette) Buy Photo The Gazette offers audio ...

As state Superintendent of Education Ellen Weaver seeks a second four-year term in office, she’ll have to fend off attacks that she is pushing a political agenda in classrooms rather than caring about ...

(Washington) -- Iowa Senator Joni Ernst hopes for transparency and closure in the long-awaited release of the Jeffrey Epstein files. Ernst joined the Iowa delegation in the U.S. House and Senate this ...

A new report from Senator Joni Ernst of Iowa has raised fresh questions about how taxpayer money is being used in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), particularly through a smaller ...

ST. CHARLES — Days before the presidential election last year, some St. Charles County Republicans were worried that election challengers weren't being allowed in polling places during early voting.