Nurses and other health care staff in Iowa’s state-run prison system would be employed by a private company under a request ...

Medical workers at state prisons could soon be employed by a private contractor in a move the Iowa Department of Corrections ...

A Pleasantville man who burglarized convenience stores last year in Absecon and Galloway Township was sentenced Thursday to ...

CAMDEN — Former Pleasantville school board member David Thomas, the last of the Operation Broken Boards defendants, was sentenced Tuesday to a year and a day in federal prison, followed ...

Instead of pursuing privatization, Copley called for the state leaders to use funds from the state’s budget reserves toward ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Iowa's aging prison system is 21 percent over capacity and officials warn that any meaningful solution could take years because of the huge cost.

Litigation over Gov. Kim Reynolds’ 2021 refusal to pay pandemic-related jobless assistance to 30,000 Iowans is continuing with a newly filed lawsuit.

DAKOTA CITY, Iowa (AP) - A former Humboldt city administrator is out of prison and on probation for stealing about $100,000 from a nonprofit group and the city.

Iowa state Rep. Monica Kurth is a Democrat who resides in Davenport and represents Iowa House District 98. Kurth is a retired teacher and in her fifth term in the Iowa House.

WATERLOO — A Waterloo police officer has been charged in the 2024 motorcycle crash that killed his girlfriend. The Iowa State Patrol charged 34-year-old Keaton Scott Northup with homicide by ...

Christine Lockheart is now eligible for parole after spending more than half her life in an Iowa prison for first-degree murder.

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (AP) -- A former vice president and cashier at the State Bank of Waterloo has been sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison on charges that she defrauded the bank of ...