Iowa lawmakers introduced more than 2,000 bills this legislative session, but only a few hundred made it past the latest legislative deadline. The deadline helps limit the number of bills lawmakers are able to consider.

Flags all around Iowa will be lowered to half-staff Friday to remember a former Iowa Senate president who died this week.

Kibbie’s public service began in 1960 when he was elected to the Iowa House. The Democrat was then elected to the Iowa Senate in 1964 and served in that body at the Statehouse u

Governor Kim Reynolds released a statement Thursday regarding the death of former Iowa Senate president Jack Kibbie.

Jack Kibbie, a farmer from Emmetsburg who served as president of the Iowa Senate earlier this century, has died at the age of 95. Former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack served alongside Kibbie in the state senate in the late 1980s.

Governor Kim Reynolds orders flags to be lowered to half-staff on Friday in honor and remembrance of former Iowa Senate president, Jake Kibbie, who recently passed away. Kibbe began his public service tenure in 1960,

In a rare move at the statehouse, a Senate subcommittee did not advance a bill on homelessness. An Iowa Republican sided with a Democrat in a three-person subco

Legislation in the Iowa House and Senate would prohibit unauthorized camping on public lands, a move advocates for people experiencing homelessness argue would “criminalize homelessness.”

A bill removing protections against discrimination for transgender Iowans from the state's civil rights act could be on Gov. Reynolds' desk this week.

A Bill advanced in the Iowa Senate Tuesday would place limitations on carbon capture pipeline projects in the state.

Iowa Senate lawmakers advanced a bill that would eliminate civil rights protections for transgender people, mirroring legislation passed by a panel of House lawmakers Monday despite the protest of hundreds of Iowans.

Legislators on an Iowa Senate subcommittee advanced a bill Tuesday that would remove exemptions to the state’s obscenity laws for libraries and schools, a move opponents say could open libraries up to lawsuits and would be logistically difficult for small libraries to protect against.