The COVID-19 pandemic took a big toll on Iowa’s health care workforce. Today, the state is facing a critical shortage of workers.

Authorities have been investigating an incident at a west-central Iowa residence on Thursday. Police have taped off an area around a house near College Place and Pine Street in Harlan. First Alert 6 observed authorities moving a body from the home and into a tent across the street.

The next, the 23-year-old living in Iowa City was left reeling as she became one of the thousands of federal employees abruptly fired from their positions this week without warning. McNulty's and other public health workers' terminations came as the Trump ...

Iowa has the second highest incidence rate of cancer in the country, and it is already feeling Trump's cuts to the workforce and research institutions trying to solve the rural cancer problem.

Around 750 employees for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC, have been laid off in recent weeks, according to reports from NPR. The CDC is among a multitude of federal agencies losing employees due to efforts from President Trump’s administration.

Charles Benbrook told an Iowa City audience this week that the state’s agriculture is too pesticide intensive, and the chemicals are “harming the soil, harming public health, and it is harming fish populations and birds and the deer.

Iowa lawmakers advanced a bill Monday banning the administration of mRNA vaccines. The bill, Senate File 360, would outlaw any person in the state of Iowa from administering an mRNA and would impose penalties of up to $500 for anyone found guilty of doing so.

Iowa has the country's second highest cancer rate, and it's increasing. So 23-year-old Bri McNulty moved there to help fight the disease as a public health worker, but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it will terminate her next month.

Agricultural economist Charles Benbrook will lead a pair of discussions this week in Des Moines and Iowa City about pesticide use, agricultural economics and public health. The first event, “Pesticide Litigation,

Before her termination, McNulty served as the outreach coordinator at the Iowa Cancer Consortium in Coralville. McNulty worked in that role since late 2023 as part of the CDC's Public Health ...