Minnesota’s Governor used a slightly misleading comparison to criticize Iowa’s Governor’s move to do away with most COVID-19 restrictions, including her mask mandate and restrictions on bars and restaurants.
The lack of a local snow removal company left residents at the Town and Country Housing Apartments snowed in for days, which meant they missed doctor’s appointments and services couldn’t reach the residents.
Our KCRG-TV9 i9 Investigative Unit learned fire code only requires multiple access points for emergency services when there are more than 30 homes in an area. There are only around 20 homes on South Park Road.
Instagram posts from the bar show bartenders not wearing masks, people gathering at the bar and champagne showers from people standing on top of the bar.
Our KCRG-TV9 i9 Investigative Unit found questionable purchases from his campaign along with another federal elected official long after they left office.
The old definition counted only those who died after receiving a positive PCR test, which an I9 investigation found ignored people who died with an antigen test.
About two weeks after KCRG-TV9′s i9 Investigation, the number of complaints a regulatory state agency received related to the derecho regarding insurance companies increased by 80%.
KCRG-TV9′s i9 Investigative Unit found the Appanoose County Health Department reported 27 deaths in the county, as of Wednesday. But, the state’s data portal reported 9 deaths.
As cases rise in the state, more people are looking to be tested for COVID-19, but more people across eastern Iowa are having trouble finding places to be tested.
Nurse practitioners are questioning their own education at some colleges. There’s no national standard on how to educate nurse practitioners, while medical education for doctors was standardized more than 100 years ago.
Sen. Joni Ernst made to Iowa AARP that “I never once voted to cut benefits for seniors on Social Security and Medicare.” The ad accuses Ernst of lying, which we’ll address at the end, citing these claims.
23 different bills had at least one Republican representative listed as a co-sponsor. Sometimes the Republican was a non-voting member from a territory like American Samoa.
Our KCRG TV9 i9 investigative unit found major discrepancies between the federal government’s tally of the supply and what’s actually in stock at these facilities.
Biden’s facts check out but it lacks that context. The letter from the Chief Actuary said those predictions would only come true if those cuts were permanent and no other source of revenue was added. That’s why this claim gets a ‘C’.
Emails, which KCRG-TV9′s i9 investigative unit received through a public records request, show a staff member from the Governor’s office was the first one to propose State Epidemiologist Dr. Caitlin Pedati’s pay raise.
Their research uses debunked myths on masks including it causes legionnaires' disease, prevents needed her immunity, lowers oxygen levels and doesn’t stop Covid-19 from spreading.
After being designated the organization to set up shelters during the derecho the American Red Cross is unsure if it can fulfill the role of shelters in the future for Linn County
Black Lives Matter protests in Iowa City are fodder for a political ad in a statehouse race, partly because of one of the candidate’s vying for the seat.
A new ad from a GOP PAC is going after Democrat Abby Finkenauer in her race to keep her seat in Iowa’s First District against Republican Ashley Hinson.
Republican Senator Joni Ernst attacked Democratic challenger Theresa Greenfield multiple times for taking a large number of donations from California and New York. But, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, the Republican senator received more than $479,000 from New York and more than $252,000 from Los Angeles.
Documents show the City of Cedar Rapids was struggling with manpower and a desperate need for shelters in the days after the Aug. 10 derecho but in the immediate aftermath never formally requested that help from the Iowa National Guard.
KCRG-TV9′s I9 investigative unit reviewed hundreds of emails and documents which showed that city staff ran the storm response rather than the city’s elected officials.
The data, which I9 received through a public records request shows the state has used less than half of the testing kits in its first contract with the Utah based health company Nomi Health.
According to emails I9 obtained through a public records request, Linn County Emergency Management Coordinator Steve O’Konek denied relief efforts from other county emergency management agencies.
Alliant Energy customers were potentially overcharged on their August energy bill and the energy company will adjust customers' bills to reflect the overcharge during the next billing cycle.
The reporting procedure for every COVID-19 test mirrors the same reporting process as a TestIowa test, which a report in July from the Iowa State Auditor’s office considered potentially illegal.
Iowa’s Governor’s Office pointed to differences in data reporting and delays from private labs in explaining discrepancies KCRG-TV9 found in the positivity rate of COVID-19 tests in Iowa.
