MOUNT PLEASANT, Iowa — A state lawmaker who represented part of southeast Iowa has passed away. Former State Representative Dave Heaton (R-Mount Pleasant) died Wednesday. He most recently represented ...

Next month Harlan-Lincoln House will once again offer brown bag lunch lectures, now at the Belle Center ...

Under Iowa law, a person convicted of a Class B felony can be sentenced up to 25 years in prison and fined up to $100,000. Established in 1976, the Mount Pleasant Correctional Facility is a minimum ...

Southeast Iowa Union offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. This week the Iowa House passed a bill that would remove gender identity as a protected class ...

MOUNT PLEASANT, Iowa (KCRG) - A man who was serving a life term for crimes in Black Hawk County has died at the Hospice Room of the Mount Pleasant Correctional Facility. John Henry Epps died at 11 ...

MOUNT PLEASANT, Iowa — A counselor at the Mount Pleasant Correctional Facility has been charged with sexually exploiting an inmate in the prison. According to court documents, 46-year-old ...

Iowa House lawmakers drastically altered a proposal Tuesday that would have made it a felony to take someone younger than 18 to a drag show and instead are using an "obscene performance ...

Iowa students in sixth through 12th grades would have access to free feminine hygiene products in their school bathrooms under a bill advancing in the Iowa House with bipartisan support.

Mount Pleasant’s mayor, a city council member and two former council members have been indicted on charges stemming from an investigation into allegedly fraudulent travel reimbursements.

LEADER. SUCH AN AWFUL SITUATION THERE. WELL, MORE MONEY COULD BE HEADING TO IOWA PUBLIC SCHOOLS. HOUSE LAWMAKERS HAVE APPROVED A BILL TO BOOST FUNDING, BUT SOME SAY IT SHORTCHANGES STUDENTS ACROSS ...

Thursday afternoon, the Iowa House passed a 2.25% increase in state funding for public schools. That’s more than the 2% increase Senate Republicans passed. Democrats say neither one is ...

House Bill 793 would allow local schools to block undocumented kids from enrolling. Schools would not be required to do so, however. GOP sponsors want to pass a law to challenge a longstanding U.S ...