Issues expected to take top priority are subjects left unresolved in 2025, namely eminent domain and property taxes.

The Iowa Legislature adjourned Thursday at 6:01 a.m. in the Senate and 6:31 a.m. in the House, finishing the 2025 legislative session with many priorities from the majority party met — but with ...

Iowa lawmakers begin the 2026 session on January 12th with economic, health, education, and workforce questions to consider.

IOWA LAWMAKERS ARE HEADING INTO ANOTHER WEEKEND WITHOUT A STATE BUDGET AND WITHOUT REALLY A CLEAR PATH FORWARD. A STANDOFF IN THE SENATE SEEMS TO BE STALLING EVERYTHING AT THE STATE HOUSE. CASEY CHIEF ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. DES MOINES — A key deadline designed to entice Iowa state lawmakers to finish their work for the year ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (KCAU) — The 2025 Iowa legislative session has come to an end, and lawmakers are sharing their final thoughts on the work they did this year. Closing statements from three state ...

Iowa House Republicans promised a broad and wide-eyed review of Iowa’s higher education system at the beginning of the legislative session in January, however, some of their biggest reforms failed to ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — Iowa lawmakers worked through Wednesday and into Thursday morning to end the 2025 legislative session. It was a longer-than-normal session. Lawmakers worked for two weeks without ...

Iowa House members work at their desks during the opening day of the Iowa Legislature, Monday, Jan. 8, 2024, at the Statehouse in Des Moines, Iowa. (Cody Scanlan/The Des Moines Register via AP) Buy ...