Category Archives: Torch News

Former Texas Governor Rick Perry addresses the crowd in Des Moines about national security and foreign policy.Former Texas governor and potential GOP presidential contender Rick Perry spoke to a room ...

Iowa’s rural bridges and roads cost taxpayers, lives, and farmers’ bottom line, according to a new report from TRIP, a national transportation research group.The group studied rural roads ...

Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller has joined other state attorneys general across the nation in filing a federal lawsuit against four cancer charities.The “fake” cancer charities scammed ar...

An Ames company is among the first in Iowa to get federal approval for using a commercial drone. Hunziker and Associates will have the drone capture exterior views of house, subdivisions and their sur...

Des Moines city council members do not want to jump into applying for a federal TIGER grant before they have explored all the parameters of the plan.City councilor Christine Hensley said though she wa...

Iowa’s transportation department has lined up a record 700-million dollars’ worth of construction projects this year, thanks to the additional funds provided by the increase in the gas tax...

The majority leader for the Iowa House has promised a conference committee will be called this week to try to reach an agreement on the supplemental education budget.  State Senator Herman Quirmb...

Those accused of crimes but found not guilty would get their records expunged under a bill passed by both house in the state legislature.  The current law in Iowa lets the charge stay on a person...

Des Moines is appealing the state’s order to take down its speed camera on I-235.  The tickets generated from the camera use have pulled in more than a million dollars per year for the city...

More homes are being built in the Midwest.  The National Association of Home Builders says housing starts went up 31 percent in March from February.  Nationwide, they went up just two percen...