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The state of Iowa is fighting with tobacco companies over $110 million the attorney general’s office says is due to the state.

The Iowa Auditor of State announced Thursday that the office is opening an investigation into a long-running theft allegedly committed by the head of the Southern Iowa Council of Governments.

Transgender girls would not be allowed to play women’s sports at Iowa schools under a proposal moving through the Iowa House.

A new facility in northwest Iowa that was built to create environmentally friendly fuel from cow manure polluted a creek this week when it leaked an estimated 376,000 gallons of

The former Wayne County puppy mill operator who was forced to surrender more than 500 dogs last year has yet to pay $60,000 in state fines.

The agency violated the open records law last year related to a request for text messages, a lawyer for the public information board said.

USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack announced $1 billion in grants for the creation of climate-friendly agricultural and forestry products.

Theres a new way to show youre vaccinated for COVID-19, without having to keep track of a pesky vaccine card, using a free QR code you can download from your account via the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services online portal. You can save the QR code as a digital file on your phone. Kristy Zigenis, COVID-19 program manager for the Nevada State Immunization Program, said businesses or events requiring proof of vaccination for admission can use a special program to decode the file. .....

A landmark victory on the rights of pregnant people when securing living wills has been settled in Idaho. A lawsuit over a 2005 law prohibiting pregnant people from making life-sustaining decisions in advanced directives has been dismissed. Jess Pezley, staff attorney for the organization Compassion and Choices, said under Idahos interpretation of the 2005 law, pregnant people would be kept on life support even if they disagreed with the decision. ...

Two years into the pandemic, the number of volunteer blood donors in Pennsylvania has dropped dramatically. Blood center leaders say its critical to get the numbers up in order to save lives. With schools and workplaces disrupted by COVID-19, many blood drives have been canceled and have not been rescheduled. ...