The Greater Des Moines Partnership wants to broker a settlement in Des Moines Water Works’ suit against upriver counties over nitrate pollution. The group’s Jay Byers told the Register they want to bring together business, farming, environmental and legislative leaders to come up with long-term water quality solutions. The recent shootings in Chattanooga have prompted…… MORE
Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack isn’t ready to call the bird flu over in the Midwest. It’s been more than a month since the last case was reported, but Vilsack says the threat has not passed. The warmer temps tend to kill the virus, but they’re nervous about the fall.… MORE
Senator Chuck Grassley wants answers into the Planned Parenthood controversial video that surfaced last week. Grassley says he’s not jumping to conclusions just yet. Several Republican presidential candidates have come out against the video…calling it “gruesome.” GOP presidential candidate Chris Christie is in central Iowa later this week for the first time since announcing he’s running…… MORE
Eddie Tipton has been found guilty by a jury in the Hot Lotto fraud case. He was accused of rigging a lottery computer so he could by the winning ticket and pass it to a friend to collect more than 16-million dollars for him. The defense plans an appeal. A former Bagley Fire Department volunteer…… MORE
Two political summits set up shop in the first-in-the-nation caucus state over the weekend. Hillary Clinton received the loudest applause of the candidates at the Iowa Democratic Party Dinner in Cedar Rapids. Donald Trump received the most negative attention for the press for commenting on John McCain. Trump criticized McCain for “doing nothing” for the…… MORE
All ten Republican presidential candidates that graced the stage of Stephens Auditorium in Ames during Saturday’s Family Leadership Summit agreed on many fronts, but one of the overlying themes of their statements was the need for a new kind of leadership in the White House. South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham said he wants new leadership…… MORE
Several Republican presidential candidates have come out against fellow contender Donald Trump’s negative remarks about Senator John McCain’s war hero status after Trump said McCain is only a war here “because he was captured.” One candidate who refused to comment on Trump’s statements was Dr. Ben Carson. In a media press conference following his…… MORE
It’s a political star-packed weekend in Iowa, with the Iowa Democratic Hall of Fame dinner tonight in Cedar Rapids. And the Family Leadership Summit in Ames tomorrow draws in the Republican presidential hopefuls. Iowa lawmakers have been concerned about the governor eliminating the state’s mental health hospitals…but it appears a Tennessee-based company may bring a…… MORE
Three siblings of Eddie Tipton took the stand yesterday in his Hot Lotto fraud trial. The three all said the person in the video buying the winning ticket could not have been their brother. Tipton is accused of rigging a lottery computer so he could get the winning ticket, and having someone else claim it…… MORE
Iowa’s medical pot oil program is costing the state 115-thousand dollars so far. That’s what it paid Morpho Trust to design and create the cards needed to register for the program. The card program has faced criticism that it’s cumbersome and largely useless.… MORE
