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The Senate Government Oversight Committee passed a bill Wednesday that guarantees state workers expanded whistleblower protections and addresses other issues including secret settlement agreements, and hiring and firing practices.

Tech giant Microsoft is building a new data center space in Iowa; this is Microsoft's second data center in West Des Moines.

Iowa lawmakers have work to complete before adjournment, but they'll have to finish up without daily payments for their expenses.

A bill that would make sweeping changes in some state government practices has been backed by a legislative panel.

A state senator is calling on the Governor to "quit playing the victim" during the investigation into controversies surrounding his administration.

The plan received the approval of the Senate Ways and Means Committee on Tuesday and is now eligible for floor debate.

The Iowa Senate has renewed its effort to reopen the Iowa Juvenile Home, with a budget amendment designed to re-establish and improve programming at the Toledo facility.

But, Terry Branstad says he's "crossing his fingers" that his Antibullying Bill will emerge before lawmakers head home for the year.

Iowa Auditor Mary Mosiman says she is conducting an audit of confidential secret settlements that have enveloped Gov. Terry Branstad's administration in controversy for more than a month.

Microsoft is identified as the company behind a massive data center project in Iowa, which is becoming a cloud computing hotbed.

State and local economic development officials in central Iowa have come up with a brand name and logo for the region in an effort to create an identity similar to that of Silicon Valley in California.

The 2014 Iowa legislative session is supposed to end Tuesday, but lawmakers now say that won't be happening.

Disagreements remain on several budget bills and priorities Gov. Terry Branstad outlined at the beginning of the year still hav ... 1. Comments from users that have private profiles are blocked by Facebook.

Marijuana legalization is a hot-button issue at all levels, both for recreational and medical use.

It turns out Team Branstad was paying former employees hush money to stay silent about why they were terminated.

Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) WEST DES MOINES - Microsoft will begin construction on a new data center in West Des Moines, state and local officials announced Friday, bringing the company's total investment in Iowa to nearly $2 billion, the largest in the state to date.

Iowa is one of four states that requires felons who have finished their sentences to appeal directly to the governor if they want their voting rights restored.

By David M. Shribman Special from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette It happens every four years.

As the end of the legislative session draws near, Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad is pushing lawmakers to keep some of his priorities in mind.

An Iowa prosecutor said she will pursue pending cases against convicted felons accused of voting illegally in 2012 despite a new Iowa Supreme Court ruling that makes it unclear whether they lost their voting rights in the first place.