Iowa

The owner of a water buffalo that ran loose in a Des Moines, Iowa, suburb for days in August has pleaded guilty for having an animal at large.

About 20 fragments were found, including a skull, rib sections, vertebra, a front leg bone and a kneecap, all believed to come from the same mastodon, according to a university news release.

Team USA won bronze for the men’s team final in artistic gymnastics on Monday, the first medal the men’s team has taken in 16 years.

People in hundreds of homes were told to get out as the Rock River could no longer take rain that has slammed the region.

The GOP-controlled state House’s passage of the legislation last week had made Iowa the latest state where lawmakers took steps that could imperil IVF.

The longtime Iowa principal who risked his life to save students during a shooting earlier this month was remembered Saturday not just for his heroic actions that day but for the unconditional love and compassion he showed his family and students during his years at Perry High School.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was expected to finish second in the Iowa caucuses behind former President Donald Trump, NBC News projected late Monday.

An Iowa principal who put himself in harm’s way to protect students during a school shooting earlier this month has died.

Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley were finding Iowa voters looking for alternatives to former President Donald Trump as they campaigned on the final weekend before 2024 voting begins. But voters’ reactions on Saturday showed how uncertain it is whether either candidate can dent Trump’s advantage.

With his presidential campaign in the background, Gov. Ron DeSantis used his annual State of the State address Tuesday to tout Florida’s accomplishments — while offering few new details of priorities for the 2024 legislative session.

Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’ State of the State address on Tuesday is supposed to be about Florida’s future. Iowa, though, is more likely at the front of his mind. NBC6’s Xochitl Hernandez reports.

The parents of the 17-year-old who killed a sixth grader and wounded seven others in a shooting at his small-town Iowa high school last week said in a statement Monday that they “had no inkling he intended the horrible violence he was about to inflict.”

The mother of an 11-year-old who was killed this week in a school shooting in Iowa remembers the boy as a friendly child who exuded happiness.

Perry High School principal Dan Marburger was one of five people injured in Thursday’s shooting. His daughter said she wasn’t surprised to hear that he tried to calm down the shooter because “that’s just Dad.”

Thursday was the first day back in school for students following the holiday break.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says Donald Trump “flip-flipped” on abortion, overreached in response to COVID-19 and failed to uphold his campaign pledge to get Mexico to pay for a wall on the southern U.S. border. DeSantis stepped up his case against Trump during a CNN town hall in Iowa five weeks before the state’s leadoff caucuses. DeSantis is in a...

Powerball losers in Iowa were actually winners for about seven hours this week after the state’s lottery mistakenly posted the wrong winning numbers for the game.

An Iowa teen convicted in the 2021 beating death of a high school Spanish teacher was sentenced to life in prison with a possibility of parole in 25 years.

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds is poised to endorse Gov. Ron DeSantis as the GOP nominee for president as Florida lawmakers began a special session. NBC6’s Steve Litz reports

The Iowa Hawkeyes defeated DePaul in front of over 55,000 fans at Kinnick Stadium, setting a women’s basketball single-game attendance record.