Republicans still have large legislative majorities in Iowa, but a Democrat’s apparent win in a solidly conservative area ...

REPUBLICAN STATE SENATOR MIKE BUFFALO FROM ANKENY IS SPEARHEADING THIS EFFORT. THIS IS A MAP OF THE NINE COUNTIES. SENATOR BUFFALO IS FOCUSING ON COUNTIES HE SAYS WERE ORIGINALLY PART OF THE IOWA ...

Critics decry it as another GOP-led attempt to strip local control from Iowa municipalities and target the state's most Democratic-leaning counties. Johnson, Black Hawk and Story counties — home ...

Minnesota Democrat Farmer Labor Party responded with a two-word statement on social media. “Counteroffer: No.” ...

The latest data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S, Department of Agriculture show the ...

Elections for county supervisors in the state’s most populous counties would change under a bill being considered in the Iowa Legislature. The Iowa Senate Local Government Subcommittee advanced ...

Senator Mike Bousselot of Polk County is the man behind the idea, saying that when Iowa was initially founded as a state, those counties were part of the original layout. He says that this ...

Georgia, the nation’s leading chicken producer, has suspended all poultry sales after detecting its first case of bird flu in ...

Local officials are responding after an Iowa senator said he plans to propose a bill in the Iowa Legislature for the state to purchase the nine counties along the southernmost part of Minnesota.

Iowa legislative leaders disagree on whether a proposal to allow the state buy nine southern Minnesota counties is an "outside the box" idea worth exploring or "frankly offensive" to Iowans with ...