In Iowa, the gap between city and country isn’t just cultural—it’s economic. Over the past 15 years, homebuying patterns in urban and rural areas have followed very different paths. During ...

Governor DeSantis received 22% of the urban vote, compared to Haley’s 21%. Keokuk County, Iowa, a rural county of 9,600, showed the most support for Trump on Monday night. Three quarters of ...

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 ...

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

Iowa's population has ... continue to concentrate in urban, suburban and metropolitan areas. Education is a major factor behind this change. The National Rural Education Association's 2023 report ...

There are many stories told and assumptions made about this urban/rural divide. IPR’s Sheila Brummer is based in western Iowa and covers ... data with a massive county-level aggregate data ...

The good news for Trump is that Iowa is home to dozens of sparsely populated rural zones ... on the back of strong performances in the urban counties. Here are those counties, along with Rubio ...

“After 2016, there were real questions about whether rural Iowa had been lost to Democrats for good, and whether Iowa was going to be put into this category of safe Republican s ...

"Rural Iowa doesn’t always feel like our small towns and our rural counties get their fair share. … This bill was our initial exploration on that." Stephen Gruber-Miller covers the Iowa ...

SIDNEY, Iowa (WOWT) - Fremont County will be one of several counties participating in a new traffic safety initiative. According to the Iowa Department of Public Safety, a new initiative called ...

and they were all urban or suburban counties. KFF Health News reporter, Tony Leys, dove into Iowa's rural hospitals, their closures, declining birth rates and the people left behind. You can read ...