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“This legislation will stop out-of-touch activists — who don’t know the first thing about farming — from dictating how Iowa farmers do their job.” — U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson on a proposed provision of the farm bill that would block states like California from regulating the raising of livestock.
Sunny View Care Center in Ankeny has filed a lawsuit challenging the state's position that it improperly evicted a resident from the facility for using marijuana. (Photo via Google Earth)
An Iowa nursing home is challenging the state’s position that it unfairly evicted a resident from the facility for using marijuana.
In a lawsuit filed recently in Polk County District Court, Ankeny Health Care Enterprises, which operates the 91-resident Sunny View Care Center in Ankeny, says it evicted, or involuntary discharged, a resident of the home earlier this year.
Iowa Auditor Rob Sand, a Democrat running to become Iowa governor in 2026, answered questions from attendees of the Iowa Association of Business and Industry conference in Coralville June 4, 2026. (Photo by Robin Opsahl/Iowa Capital Dispatch)
With the primaries over, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Rob Sand said Thursday his general election approach will remain focused on bipartisanship and finding “reasonable” solutions for Iowans as he faces off against businessman Zach Lahn in November.
Sand told the crowd at the Iowa Association of Business and Industry conference in Coralville that many of Iowa’s challenges in economic growth and healthcare stem from Republicans holding a trifecta in Iowa for more than 10 years — but said he did not believe this was a “partisan problem.”
A lawsuit against Henry County and Mt. Pleasant officials has been dismissed because the plaintiff — a lawyer who claimed his rights had been violated — missed a filing deadline.
Congress is looking to roll back state animal welfare laws as it wrangles over reauthorization of the federal farm bill, Stateline reports.
A former central Iowa physician who allegedly admitted using cocaine daily before entering treatment is arguing in court that efforts to suspend his license threaten his livelihood and would be “the kiss of death” for his medical practice in California.
The Iowa Board of Nursing has issued an emergency order suspending the license of a Davenport nurse due to the alleged threat he poses to the public.
U.S. Senate Republicans fended off an attempt Thursday to block the Department of Justice from using an “anti-weaponization” fund to pay people who feel they were wrongly prosecuted, as well as another proposal that sought to require congressional authorization for a new White House ballroom.
The federal government will spend $700 million on building or refurbishing coal power infrastructure across the country in a boost to “clean, beautiful coal,” President Donald Trump said Thursday in the Oval Office.
President Donald Trump will nominate acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, his former personal lawyer, to fill the top role at the Department of Justice on a permanent basis, he said Wednesday night.
A Louisiana detention center that houses roughly 1,500 immigrants failed to ensure sanitary conditions, properly store perishable food, properly notify use-of-force incidents and maintain medical records of detainees, according to a report published Thursday by the Department of Homeland Security’s internal watchdog.
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