Iowa News Service

he Iowa Senate has approved a measure allowing some medical facilities to be licensed as "emergency hospitals." This would be especially important in rural areas facing a critical-care shortage.

The Iowa Legislature's powerful Ways and Means Committee has advanced a measure to eliminate the state income tax.

Iowa has developed its first-ever plan to predict drought before it happens.

(Iowa News Service) As part of the Inflation Reduction Act, the Interior Department has announced it is investing $120 million to restore and rebuild key segments of America's wildlife management systems, especially in key areas of the Midwest.

Instead of this familiar boom-bust cycle, Smith hopes to see a network of farmers across Iowa, Minnesota, and beyond that can afford to stay on the land while farming at a smaller scale by cutting their input costs radically and selling higher welfare, grass-fed meat into local markets and directly to consumers.

The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy reports nearly three quarters of farmers across the country who applied for two types of U.S. Department of Agriculture conservation programs are turned away.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has awarded Iowa State University a $1.8 million grant to raise high-dollar crops in the shadow of huge solar array panels that are becoming more common across the state.

Millions of people suffer from eating disorders, which range from mild to lethal.

Progressive agricultural growers returning this week from the Food not Feed Summit in Washington, D.C., are asking their fellow farmers to consider a big transition.

An environmental group will host an online rally tonight in support of a bill in the Iowa Legislature to block the use of eminent domain to build captured carbon dioxide pipelines.