The Republican incumbent, Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA), first won election to Congress in 2020 by six votes. A state legislator who had lost three previous bids for the House of Representatives, Miller-Meeks finally won by an extremely close margin amid the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Nov. 5 election features several competitive races that will help decide control of the presidency, Congress and the Iowa Legislature.

The Iowa Supreme Court filed its decision Friday over the dispute that lasted more than four years between Linn County and the Iowa Voter Registration Commission.

The amendment would clarify that if the governor leaves office, the lieutenant governor becomes governor and can appoint their own replacement.

Iowa’s public schools are under attack. That was the message last Sunday at the Tama Civic Center during a book talk with author/educator/podcaster Jennifer Berkshire hosted by the 501(c)(4) social welfare organization Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement Action Fund (Iowa CCI).

The Iowa Secretary of State's Office has announced a new voter initiative to get veterans to the polls on Nov. 5. "It's time that each of you have confidence and resources to go forth and to exercise that right to vote that you have already spent time fighting for and protecting,

Under Iowa law, judges are appointed by the governor but subject to retention elections, where voters get a yes-or-no vote on whether to keep them in their position. This year's slate includes Supreme Court Justice David May and four judges on the Iowa Court of Appeals,

Iowa voters are asked each election cycle whether they would like to retain justices in Iowa's court systems, a process that has been in place for decades. However, the recent Iowa Supreme Court decision on a law banning most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy has revived debate around Iowa's retention structure,

The Iowa Supreme Court has unanimously ruled that the Linn County Auditor can pursue his lawsuit that questions the security of Iowa’s voter registration system. In 2019, Linn County Auditor Joel Miller,

In our Beyond the Podium series, Iowa's News Now is speaking with all of the candidates running for Congress in Iowa.Starting on Oct. 6, political reporters Nic

In the November election, Republicans are hoping to defend a strong majority in the Iowa House while Democrats are looking to regain seats.

Local Democrats and voting advocates are sounding the alarm that a proposed Iowa constitutional amendment — nominally about voting age rules — is actually a ban on noncitizen voting. Why it matters: Those implications have not been widely discussed by politicians of either party in the five years the proposal has been under consideration,