Amie Rivers is Starting Line's community editor, labor reporter and newsletter snarker-in-chief. Previously, she was an award-winning journalist at the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier; now, she very much ...

Iowa’s exploding COVID-19 outbreaks at state universities in Ames and Iowa City are now disasters that can only be fully measured on a global scale. Ames holds the distinction this morning as the ...

Everyone in town warned those who hadn’t seen it yet that the level of destruction in Cedar Rapids was “unimaginable.” That was somehow understating it. Volunteers and relief groups poured into Iowa’s ...

The final Iowa Caucus results are finally final: Pete Buttigieg has won (still). This evening, the Iowa Democratic Party released the results of the recount requested by Bernie Sanders and Pete ...

Barring some outlandish or criminal behavior while in office, the sitting governor typically backs the sitting legislators in their own party during a primary election. But after her much-touted ...

The gold standard of Iowa polling shows Sen. Joni Ernst trailing her Democratic opponent and found less than 50% of Iowans approve of the job she is doing in Congress. Theresa Greenfield has ...

After Waterloo, Iowa, retiree Rosetta Robinson’s daughter had a baby, the two moved out of the small apartment they shared together, expecting to get a more spacious home within a few months. That was ...

The new front in the Donald Trump-led effort to deny the results of the 2020 election has officially come to Iowa. That’s thanks in part to a recent high-profile visit to the state by Dr. Douglas ...

As we take stock of what happened in 2024 and prepare for the road ahead, the results in the 1st Congressional District show some interesting trends. Here are some key takeaways from Tuesday’s ...

Iowa’s first-elected transgender woman, Aime Wichtendahl, made history a second time when she won a seat in the Iowa Legislature. Wichtendahl, a Democrat and Hiawatha City Council member, will ...

Iowa state senator from Coralville announced a run to take on Iowa’s junior US Senator. State Sen. Zach Wahls (D-Coralville) ended months of speculation Wednesday morning by announcing he will ...