Counties with Iowa's three public universities would have to elect county supervisors by district, not at large, under a bill ...

Democrat Mike Zimmer beat out Republican Kate Whittington in the state senate special election to fill Chris Cournoyer's ...

Iowa's governor would appoint the majority of the commissioners that choose finalists to be district court judges under a bill that passed the Senate.

The Iowa Senate has passed a bill that would give the governor authority to appoint a majority of the people who serve on commissions that nominate district court judges. Five attorneys chosen by ...

Before serving in the Senate, Petersen served six terms in the Iowa House. Iowa Senate District 18 encompasses parts of Des Moines, including parts of downtown and the Sherman Hill, Woodland ...

A bill to cut unemployment insurance taxes was approved by an Iowa Senate committee Tuesday. Iowa businesses would pay less in unemployment taxes under a bill that advanced through a Senate ...

The governor would get more power over commissions that choose judicial nominees under a bill passed Monday by the Iowa Senate. District judicial nominating commissions consider applicants for ...

Kim Reynolds' desk by Thursday night. House and Senate Republicans are fast-tracking identical bills removing gender identity as a protected class in the Iowa Civil Rights Act. On Wednesday, the ...

And “you couldn’t use a computer to generate a better candidate” for his district than Mr. Zimmer, said Tyler Redenbaugh, the executive director of the Iowa Senate Majority fund and the ...

The Iowa Senate approved a bill to require the state’s public schools to show high quality animations of fetal development in fourth through 12th grade human growth and development classes. The bill, ...