Juneteenth celebrations are planned across the state today marking the end of slavery in 1865. The Black Hawk County NAACP has celebrated since the 1990s, though it has only been a federal holiday for five years. The group’s president Latanya Graves says “unity” is their theme for 2026. “With everything that’s going on in the […]

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






