High-profile Republican priorities are advancing after the Iowa Legislature's first "funnel" deadline on Friday, while others failed to survive.

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

With the first legislative deadline passed, Iowa legislators’ focus will shift to include more tax and fiscal policy considerations

State lawmakers hit the 2025 session’s first ‘funnel’ deadline, which revokes the eligibility of bills that did not reach a certain approval threshold.

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

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

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

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,

Iowa funnel week is the week bills must pass through one full committee in either the State House or Senate to stay eligible this session.

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.

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.

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