Iowa Government News

Last month, Gov. Chet Culver ordered a 10 percent across-the-board cut in the state budget, a percentage more than twice as large as any such cut in the state's recorded history.

An aide said Friday lawyer Roxanne Conlin intends to seek the Democratic nomination for Senate in 2010 and the right to oppose Republican Sen.

Senate Republican Leader Paul McKinley announced Friday that he is withdrawing from the campaign for governor.

Four additional Iowa influenza-related H1N1 deaths are being reported today by the Iowa Department of Public Health , and one of the new fatalities is not attributable to risk factors associated with an additional medical condition.

A movement is under way that aims to undo the marriage licenses given to same-sex couples since the Iowa Supreme Court legalized gay and lesbian marriages in April.

After holding hearings throughout Iowa about medical uses of marijuana, pharmacy regulators will consider whether to recommend that legislators change the state's laws dealing with the drug.

Health officials in Iowa say a 13-year-old cat tested positive for swine flu - the first feline to come down with the virus.

NEAR IDA GROVE, Iowa - As folks, in Maine, vote publicly on same-sex marriage, four men running for Iowa governor want voters in the "hawkeye state" to have the same chance.

A growing number of states are moving to allow higher alcohol content in beer, despite concerns from some substance-abuse experts.

Gov. Chet Culver and legislative budget architects will face a $543 million gap in funding for K12 public schools when they begin assembling a fiscal 2011 spending plan next session.

Former Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad has hired a communications director, but he has not declared his candidacy for the 2010 gubernatorial race.

A recent report from the University of Iowa Center on Aging found a startling gap between the growing number of people who need geriatric health care services and the limited supply of those services in the state.

There's no doubt that Iowa and the rest of the country are facing tough times. Since the Legislature approved a balanced budget last spring, state revenues have plunged dramatically.

Two decades ago, no one would have imagined Iowa would someday be home to a garlic festival.

A political organization formed to promote Sarah Palin is trying to raise $41,000 to help pay for a potential appearance by the former Alaska governor next month before an influential conservative group in Iowa.

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin , invited to address a conservative group in Iowa next month, has reportedly made an unusual demand -- a fee.

Attention has been focused on Gov. Chet Culver's plans to cut $565 million from the state's budget, but legislators say they'll probably have to make an equally large cut to the following year's budget.

An Iowa legislative panel is declining to sanction a pharmacy group for violating lobbying laws during the last legislative session, but lawmakers say they want to overhaul the law to bring more transparency to the system.

If these near-slot machines were so scurrilous three years ago, why would we bring them back? "I don't believe the people of Iowa want gambling on every street corner." That's what some Iowa lawmakers were saying a few years ago when TouchPlay video lottery games were popping up in stores and bars across the state.

Testimony is under way in a consumer fraud lawsuit filed by Iowa against a Connecticut company over discount buying programs.