The northwest Iowa town of Graettinger is hosting its 130th Labor Day celebration, starting Friday and running through the weekend, Iowa’s oldest such festival. Event chairman Phillip Schmitt says the annual community bash brings together family, friends, and former residents who return to continue the long-standing tradition which started in Graettinger in 1896. “It’s a […]

Bill makes smuggling undocumented immigrants a crime in Iowa
Human smuggling of undocumented immigrants — to conceal them from law enforcement — would become a crime in Iowa if a






