For many in our caucus, there is nothing we have heard louder or clearer than the call from landowners to protect their private property rights from eminent domain abuse by CO2 pipeline projects. This ...

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio promises to re-evaluate U.S. travel warnings for Jamaica during his Caribbean visit.

Victims of human trafficking could petition to have their criminal records expunged under a new Iowa bill. House File 926 ...

Local governments in Iowa would be prohibited from having diversity, equity and inclusion offices under legislation passed by Senate Republicans.

House Republicans passed their own version of a ban on DEI positions in local government. That bill, House File 856, was ...

The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa by attorneys for six Guatemalan citizens, all ...

AMES, Iowa (KCRG) - An Ames man was sentenced to life in prison after trafficking dozens of children and young adults.

Carl Markley of Ames was accused of paying, lying to and pressuring potentially hundreds of young men to let him perform sex ...

The Iowa House has passed a bill supporters say could make it easier to prosecute human traffickers and another that would make human smuggling a state crime. Legislators cited a lawsuit recently ...

A handful of bills made it through the Iowa House floor to mark the end of the lawmaker work week as the second funnel deadline nears. A bill that made it through the chamber last year but failed to ...

Two bills on human trafficking were approved by the Iowa House Thursday. House File 572, passed 75-14, creates a new criminal offense for the act of human smuggling, defined as acts including ...

A bill that would make migrant smuggling a state crime in Iowa has passed out of the Iowa House, with some bipartisan support ...