Republican State Senator Kerry Gruenhagen of Walcott says Iowa State and UNI have similar centers on campus and this would do similar work. “This bill creates a huge step forward in ...

Democratic contender Nathan Sage, the executive director of the Knoxville Chamber of Commerce, is launching a Senate bid to take on Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) next year in Iowa. Sage made that ...

Ernst, who is running for her third Senate term in 2026, retired as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Iowa Army National Guard after 23 years of military service, but Sage claimed that the Republican ...

The Iowa Senate passed a proposed constitutional amendment Tuesday to raise the bar that future lawmakers must clear to increase income taxes. Senate Joint Resolution 11 would require a two-thirds ...

Sage’s background could make him a compelling candidate against Ernst, the first woman veteran elected to the Senate. He grew up poor in an Iowa trailer park before enlisting in the U.S. Marine ...

Iowa Senate lawmakers sent a bill that would create a Center for Intellectual Freedom at the University of Iowa to the governor’s desk on Tuesday. The bill, House File 437, would create a new center ...

The Iowa Senate gave the final approval for a bill allowing Iowa’s regent universities to sue their accredditors if they lose accreditation for following state law on Thursday. The bill, House File ...

The first Democrat filed to run against Sen. Joni Ernst (D-IA) in her reelection campaign for the Iowa Senate in the 2026 midterm election. Nathan Sage, a Marine and Army veteran, announced his ...

The only Iowa Democrat to officially announce his campaign for the seat held by U.S. Senator Joni Ernst, a Republican, told Gray Media Iowa that his focus will be the “working class.” ...