Category Archives: KXEL News

A panel of Iowa budget experts says they expect higher than anticipated state revenue this year but remain cautious about predicting a quick recovery. The Revenue Estimating Conference on Friday after...

A Wartburg College student has filed a class action lawsuit over the cost of tuition after losing on-campus educational time last year due to the pandemic. Sydney Warner filed the lawsuit this week in...

A new monthly survey of bankers points to a quickly recovering economy in rural parts of Iowa and nine other Plains and Western states...the survey’s individual indicators soared and the overall...

Democrats are looking to move forward with their HR-1 bill, that would dramatically alter voting laws in this country, taking oversight and regulation away from state officials. U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst o...

Gov. Reynolds on Wednesday announced all Iowans will be eligible for COVID-19 vaccination starting on Monday, April 5–so long as the state's vaccine dose allocation from the federal government i...

DURING THE EARLY MONTHS OF 2021, FIRST DISTRICT CONGRESSWOMAN ASHLEY HINSON HAS ARGUED THAT OTHER STATES SHOULD BE LIKE IOWA WHEN IT COMES TO IN-PERSON LEARNING IN K-THROUGH-12 SCHOOLS. THIS WEEK ON F...

The Iowa House of Representatives Tuesday passed a bill that supports sexual assault survivors. House File 603 would create a sexual assault forensic examiner program within the Attorney General’...

IOWA SECOND DISTRICT CONGRESSWOMAN MARIANNETTE MILLER-MEEKS IS PART OF A REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION VISITING THE U.S.-MEXICO BORDER, AT A TIME WHEN AN INCREASING NUMBER OF CENTRAL AMERICAN MI...

Iowa’s unemployment rate dropped to 3.5% in January as more residents joined the workforce. The state’s Workforce Development department reported yesterday the rate was down from a revised...

THE CLOSE ELECTION AND CONTINUING DISPUTE OVER RESULTS IN IOWA'S SECOND CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT HAS BROUGHT CONGRESSWOMAN MARIANETTE MILLER-MEEKS INTO THE NATIONAL SPOTLIGHT. SHE RECENTLY JOINED FOX'S ...