Terry Branstad News

If my marriage was collapsing while I was running for governor, I'm not sure I'd issue a press release about that.

Governor Branstad and Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey sent a letter to Senator Tom Harkin this week, asking Harkin to support the King amendment as part of the Farm Bill negotiations.

Flags on all public grounds across the state will be flown at half-staff starting Friday in honor of Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day weekend.

When it comes to good eats, bacon is in. People are putting the porky product on everything these days.

The dog had been missing since Wednesday after the family was involved in an accident that killed one family member.

The fields have been harvested and snow is starting to fall. The temperature is also falling too.

The Iowa Court of Appeals has thrown out the convictions of an eastern Iowa man who had pleaded guilty to lascivious acts with a child and sexual abuse.

A northwest Iowa day care provider has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of a 3-year-old girl she was watching in late October.

Gov. Terry Branstad is not scheduled to meet with President Barack Obama to discuss Iowa's low income health care proposal.

The Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation says authorities will provide updated information Thursday afternoon in the Oct. 31 death of Autumn Elgersma.

Iowa's Governor plans to make his voice heard as the Environmental Protection Agency considers changes to the Renewable Fuels Standard.

Gov. Terry Branstad said Wednesday he is considering a proposal to give taxpayers the option of filing their state income taxes using a system with lower rates but fewer deductions.

A battle royal over ethanol will be on display Thursday as oil, livestock, environmental, biofuels and consumer groups descend on a public hearing on the Environmental Protection Agency's renewable fuels mandate.

Mayor Ron Corbett thumped his knee nine times Wednesday, as each of the nine members of the Iowa Flood Mitigation Board voted in favor of Cedar Rapids' request for $264 million in state funds over 20 years to help build a flood protection system on both sides of the Cedar River.

Gov. Terry Branstad said Wednesday he is considering a proposal to give taxpayers the option of filing their state income taxes using a system with lower rates but fewer deductions.

Smudges turned out to be the last hurdle. Peter Rybchenkov with the Chicago-based Methods & Materials installers knelt on the platform Wednesday in the State Historical Museum lobby with a cloth and a bottle of Windex and polished the new mirror that forms a round, reflective floor beneath the globe.

Templeton Rye Whiskey Distillery has gone from a small, rural Iowa operation to supplying whiskey in 40 states in just eight years.

Iowa's Governor plans to make his voice heard as the Environmental Protection Agency considers changes to the Renewable Fuels Standard.

Any issue that hopes to move in the split-control Iowa Legislature next year will have to develop bipartisan support early to pass in an election-year session that may not span the full 100 days that are scheduled, leaders said Wednesday.

Gov. Terry Branstad's push to get veterans to live and work in Iowa continued Tuesday with the announcement of two special designations for Iowa businesses and communities.