Read what Columbia Journalism Review had to say in an April 3, 2018, article about IowaWatch's work with high school journalists. "Iowa high schoolers power statewide investigations" by Micah Fields.
Thank you to those who supported and came to our live storytelling event, "Fringe: True Stories From Outsiders," in Iowa City on Thursday, March 29. An audience of about 65 people heard Daniel Tardy, Veronica Hamly, Ryan Hall, John Paul Derryberry and Miriam Alarcon Avila tell stories about ways Iow
Joseph Riley from Erie County, N.Y., was in a train station in New Jersey in 1873 when he overheard a conversation between two men sitting on a bench across
Investors may not know the risks climate-related events could have on companies based on public filings, a new report from the Government Accountability Office found.
The Securities and Exchange
The ink is barely dry on the check taxpayers of Iowa had to write last fall to settle a sexual-harassment lawsuit won by an employee of the Iowa Senate Republican staff. Then this.
New legislation offers hope but many Iowans continue to struggle to find appropriate mental health care in the state. Simon Ertzinger, of Cedar Rapids, is one of them.
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The New Hampshire Presidential Primary may be two years away, but
One of Iowa's newest legislators said in IowaWatch's weekend radio report that administrative bureaucracy and lobbyists have too much power at the Statehouse in Des Moines. You can read about the report and listen to it here.
Shoppers in downtown Des Moines on September 11, 1874, were curious about a little fruit stand on wheels they saw on the sidewalk. It wasn’t unusual to see the
There was noteworthy news coming out of the Iowa Legislature last week.
This may surprise you, but I am not referring to the headlines about Bill Dix, the Iowa Senate’
Incumbent Kim Reynolds and former Cedar Rapids Mayor Ron Corbett give Iowa Republicans a choice for who their nominee for governor will be in the November general election.
Reynolds, the
“I have not given up hope but what my husband was saved in some way,” Carrie Toogood Chaffee told a Minneapolis newspaper reporter in April 1912.
Carrie had grown up
