The Latest Breaking News from Iowa

By the time you finish Neil Hamilton’s new book, “The Land Remains,” which is written partly in the voice of 40 acres of Iowa farmland, you realize you’ve read a love story.

Welcome to the Tuesday, May 31, Brew. 

CHICAGO — Cynthia Clampitt thinks well of the Midwest region. So much so that “Destination Heartland: A Guide to Discovering the Midwest’s Remarkable Past,” is the food and travel writer’s third book focused on the region.

An Iowa Supreme Court decision is holding back the state's solidly Republican Legislature and governor from banning abortion if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v

CHICAGO — Keegan Murray is used to being doubted.

The filing deadline for candidates running for Congress in Iowa this year was March 18, 2022. Ten candidates are running for Iowa’s four U.S. House districts, including four Democrats and six Republicans. That’s 2.5 candidates per district, less than the 4.5 candidates per district in 2020 and the four in…

Forty-six state legislative districts up for election this year in Iowa are open, meaning no incumbents filed to run. That equals 33% of the 134 districts up for election and 31% of all 150 districts in the Iowa General Assembly.

Farmers from Iowa to Ukraine are grappling with surging diesel prices and an unsteady supply, forcing them to spend unprecedented sums on fuel in a chaotic market and raising concerns about the autumn harvest.

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds recently met privately with dozens of people in the basement of an operations facility in a Marion park. The event wasn't listed on her official public schedule and members of the media who got wind of it and turned up were turned away. "Multiple elected officials…