That’s what Interim Superintendent Matt Smith said he would point to: the district’s 30,000 students, when asked why Des Moines Public Schools’ upcoming bond referendum still matters in the wake of ...

ISL’s series The Hot Spot: Investigating Cancer in Iowa comes to an end, but one big question remains: What are we going to do about this crisis? When my colleague Zachary Oren Smith and I started ...

WATCH: Christina Bohannan’s 2026 bid and Congress’ biggest toss-up district (PT 1) – Cornhole Champions #29 Christina Bohannan just announced her campaign for Iowa’s 1st Congressional District, ...

On this episode of Cornhole Champions, Zachary Oren Smith sits down with investigative journalist Carey Gillam, editor-in-chief of ⁠The New Lede⁠ and author of “The Monsanto Papers” and “Whitewash.” ...

Over the last few weeks, our team has been drawing connections between pesticide usage, nitrate-contaminated water, a severe lack of regulations, and our state's cancer crisis. The reaction may be to ...

Several of Shannon Huey's family members have had cancer, many at young ages. Though genetics and personal choices can play a role in cancer risk, she thinks her family's long list of diagnoses means ...

The only qualifier a federal employee has to meet to eat free at Flavors of India is to show a work badge to verify their employment. Flavors of India owner Apjeet Makkar wants federal employees to ...

WATCH: Christina Bohannan’s 2026 bid and Congress’ biggest toss-up district (PT 1) – Cornhole Champions #29 Christina Bohannan just announced her campaign for Iowa’s 1st Congressional District, ...

WATCH: Christina Bohannan’s 2026 bid and Congress’ biggest toss-up district (PT 1) – Cornhole Champions #29 Christina Bohannan just announced her campaign for Iowa’s 1st Congressional District, ...

Sarah Hedlund and Diana Mondragon were groomed and sexually abused by the same high school teacher 20 years ago – but their paths to justice couldn’t have been more different. Not because of the facts ...

A Mississippi River bridge, a transportation lifeline connecting Lansing in northeast Iowa to Wisconsin, is set to close in October. Iowa and Wisconsin transportation departments determined in July ...