Category Archives: KXEL News

From the KCRG-TV9 Newsroom: Iowa lawmakers in the Housepassed a bill that requires students at public schools to use bathrooms or locker rooms of their birth gender. It passed 57 to 39 with five Repub...

From the KCRG-TV9 Newsroom:   The Iowa House has passed a massive government reorganization bill proposed by Governor Kim Reynolds. It passed 58 to 39, and would reduce the number of state agenci...

From the KCRG-TV9 Newsroom: Manchester Fire Chief Mike Ryan has been placed on administrative leave. Thecity manager made the announcement Tuesday afternoon but is not saying why the action was taken,...

DES MOINES, Iowa (KCRG) - A new poll shows a majority of Iowans support legislation to restrict LGBTQ topics being taught in Iowa schools and a ban on gender-affirming care for minors. The Des Moines ...

WALCOTT, Iowa (KCRG) - Officials have released the names of the people killed in a head-on collision along Interstate 80 in Scott County on Friday night. Brina Anderson-Yoder, 23, of Cedar Rapids, Jes...

From the KCRG-TV9 Newsroom: The University of Iowa will reimburse the state of Iowa $2 million after a discrimination lawsuit settlement.UI President Barbara Wilson said in a statement the Department ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (KCRG) - In a 57-39 vote, the Iowa House passed a bill that would ban minors from receiving "gender transition procedures." SF538 would ban puberty blockers, hormone therapies, and ot...

From the KCRG-TV9 Newsroom: Voters overwhelmingly rejected a proposed municipal water system in Swisher.The new water system would have cost 20-million dollars. 72-percent of registered voters in Swis...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Iowa taxpayers are on the hook for half of a $4 million settlement in the lawsuit brought by former Iowa football players who alleged racial discrimination in coach Kirk Feren...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former President Donald Trump are each headed to Iowa in the coming weeks, making their first trips of the year to the leadoff Republican voting s...