DES MOINES, Iowa, Aug. 14 -- The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship issued the following news: * * * 449 Century and Heritage Farm Families Honored at the 2025 Iowa State Fair * # Honored at the 2025 Iowa State Fair # Program celebrates farms that have been in the same family for 100 and 150 years, respectively DES MOINES, Iowa (Aug. 14, 2025) - Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig and Iowa Farm Bureau Federation President Brent Johnson honored 449 Iowa farm families   more

DES MOINES, Iowa, Aug. 14 -- The Iowa Department of Natural Resources issued the following news release: * * * Air quality permits for review, published 08/14/2025 * DES MOINES - The DNR Air Quality Bureau has the following draft permits up for review. The permits help protect Iowans' health and the air where we live. DNR's permitting staff review the applications to ensure facilities comply with state and federal air quality standards. The public has the right and is encouraged to comment o  more

DES MOINES, Iowa, Aug. 15 -- The Iowa Democratic Party issued the following news release: * * * NEW DATA: Iowa has 3,600 fewer jobs than a year ago as wholesale inflation rises at highest level in three years Iowa Workforce development, National Bureau of Labor statistics, and Deere earnings all out Thursday * Des Moines - A slew of new economic data out Thursday painted a grim picture of Iowa's economy following a Nebraska Republican declaring last week that Iowa and Nebraska are in a "rec  more

DES MOINES, Iowa, Aug. 14 -- The Iowa Democratic Party issued the following news release on Aug. 13, 2025: * * * Prices are on the Rise Trump's policies are causing staples like coffee and vegetables to skyrocket, and they're not slowing down * Des Moines - Inflation, an issue Iowa Republicans promised to fix on day one, is hurting Iowans' pocketbooks once again. The prices of nearly everything at the grocery store -- coffee, peanut butter, beef, fresh and frozen vegetables, candy, breakfa  more

DES MOINES, Iowa, Aug. 14 -- The Iowa Democratic Party issued the following news release on Aug. 13, 2025: * * * What Do Republican Candidates For Governor Have to Say About IPERS and Teacher Pay? Do they believe in the cuts Reynolds' DOGE taskforce has proposed? * Des Moines - Reynolds' DOGE task force, modeled after Elon Musk's short-lived and unsuccessful original group, met last week to release their work. Instead of reviewing the state's $350 million voucher program or tax breaks for t  more

DES MOINES, Iowa, Aug. 15 -- Iowa Workforce Development issued the following news release on Aug. 14, 2025: * * * Iowa's Unemployment Rate Holds at 3.7 Percent in July DES MOINES, IOWA - Iowa's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate held steady at 3.7 percent in July. Iowa's jobless rate was 3.1 percent one year ago. The U.S. unemployment rate increased to 4.2 percent in July. The total number of unemployed Iowans increased to 64,900 in July from 63,700 in June. The total number of working I  more