The Bridgestone tire plant in Des Moines is offering severance packages to about 130 employees, after laying off more than a hundred people last June. The factory makes tires for farm machinery. Local ...

Welcome to Week in Iowa, the round up of this week's news from our newsrooms across the state.

The ceremonial gavel strike to open a new session of the Iowa Legislature doesn't officially take place until Monday.

Columbus Police and Fire spent most of the day on Thursday assisting a semi-truck that had rolled over at the intersection of ...

Reading about the recent round of layoffs at John Deere’s Ottumwa plant got me thinking about the future of farming and the ...