The Iowa DOGE task force is eyeing recommending the state consolidate its 99 counties as a way to curb local spending and ...

During this 2009–2018 span, urban vs. rural differences began to widen. Job growth and in-migration to Iowa’s metropolitan areas drove most of the home sales gains. Polk County (Des Moines ...

With regard to their total nursing staff, eight of Iowa’s 410 nursing homes were staffed at least 40% below the level that ...

After years of trying to improve his hospital in Riverton, Wyoming—first as a doctor, then as a board member and volunteer ...

Iowa’s most populous counties and those with a public ... “To me, it's not a political game at all. It is rural representation versus the urban. She and Sen. David Sires, R-Cedar Falls ...

Officials in communities from rural to urban and red to blue have blasted the Trump administration’s recently-published list ...

Officials in communities from rural to urban and red to blue have blasted the Trump administration’s recently-published list of “sanctuary jurisdictions.” ...

He has said he appeals to a bipartisan coalition of voters across all parts of Iowa, urban and rural. His campaign will also benefit from an amassed $8 million in campaign contributions last year ...

The water quality concerns were highlighted during a roundtable held by Democratic Iowa State Auditor Rob Sand’s ...

In rural America, access to obstetric (OB) and maternal health care has been declining while maternal mortality is rising, ...

Hacker says most of them are rural counties. “Many people think that food insecurity only affects urban areas, and when you look at the Iowa counties facing the state’s, highest levels of food ...