Cuts to Medicaid and other federal health programs proposed in President Donald Trump's budget plan would rapidly push more ...

Five rural Iowa development projects will receive grant funding to help develop project-ready industrial sites. The Iowa ...

Trump’s budget plan, dubbed the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” contains nearly $800 billion in Medicaid cuts, according to the ...

Joseph Mitchell, a former Southeast Iowa state lawmaker who is now Great Plains Region Administrator for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), ...

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

SIOUX CITY (KTIV) - Over $134 million will be disbursed from the Department of Housing and Urban Development throughout the state of Iowa to 29 counties effected by flooding, last summer.

“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 ...

The enemy of rural Iowa is not urban Iowa. Cutting state economic development funding for Iowa’s four largest counties seems punitive, short-sighted and backwards. Yet, a bill in the Iowa ...

DES MOINES, Iowa ... to aid rural communities, but the measure would harm areas of the state that are often “drivers” in the state’s economy that will benefit surrounding counties.

DES MOINES — Iowa’s four most populous counties — Polk ... with a focus on both rural and urban areas. Some programs work with businesses directly, while others work with local governments ...

"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 ...

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 ...