Republican Sen. Joni Ernst is facing backlash after saying “we all are going to die” while talking about potential changes to ...

Google will invest $7 billion to officially build a data center in Cedar Rapids and expand infrastructure at its Council ...

Republican U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst held her first town hall of 2025 on Friday in Parkersburg, where she received both applause ...

A work crew of inmates cleared the way for a woman and her three children to finally be able to leave their rural Oklahoma ...

Officials in communities from rural to urban and red to blue blasted the Trump administration's list of “sanctuary ...

DES MOINES — Iowa Republican U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst has drawn her first Democratic challenger in the 2026 election. Iowa Army and Marine Corps veteran Nathan Sage, executive director of the ...

DES MOINES, Iowa – Democrat Theresa Greenfield leads Republican incumbent Joni Ernst by 3 percentage points in Iowa’s hotly contested U.S. Senate race, a new Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa ...

Iowa's Republican U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst said Tuesday she will vote ... Brianne Pfannenstiel is the chief politics reporter for the Des Moines Register. Reach her at [email protected] or 515-284-8244.

He is the first Iowa Democrat to formally launch a campaign for the seat, although others have floated the possibility. Sage, 40, is hoping to challenge Republican U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst ...

He is the first Iowa Democrat ... November. Ernst told reporters in 2024 she intends to seek a third term, but she has not formally launched a reelection campaign. Sage told the Des Moines ...