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A Fort Dodge mother charged with first-degree murder in the death of her infant daughter has followed the baby’s father and pleaded guilty to a lesser charge. Taylor Blaha pleaded

The Iowa Aviation Museum is holding its 30th annual Wings Fly-In/Drive-In and Hall of Fame induction Saturday in Greenfield. The museum’s Kris Schildberg says this year’s Hall of Fame inductee

Work has begun to fix a 40-foot side sinkhole near Knoxville. An Iowa Department of Agriculture engineer’s report concluded the sinkhole formed when an abandoned limestone mine underneath collapsed. Decorah-based

The National Weather Service forecast is calling for hot and humid air to flow into Iowa this weekend and it could stick around through the middle of next week. The

The 11-day reign of a big pig from northeast Iowa will end this Sunday. Sasquatch, this year’s Big Boar at the Iowa State Fair, weighed in at just over a

Some schools and colleges are trying to ban students from using artificial intelligence in their coursework, but a University of Iowa instructor is encouraging her students to embrace AI in

It would be a big shot heard ’round the political world and it’s clear G-O-P candidates are gunning for it. Vivek Ramaswamy is among the 12 presidential candidates appearing with

With classes starting next week for hundreds of thousands of Iowa students, many school districts statewide are facing a common problem — a lack of school bus drivers. In northwest

The annual Sergeant Floyd Memorial encampment is this weekend along the banks of the Missouri River in Sioux City. Sergeant Charles Floyd was the only member of the 1804 Lewis

Iowa law says schools cannot start before August 23 and next Wednesday will be the first day of school for more than half a million Iowa students. It will be