Katherine Perkins

Iowa lawmakers are facing another funnel deadline this week at the statehouse. Bills must have cleared one chamber and a committee in the other chamber in…

Powerful winds swept through Eastern Iowa in Sunday morning’s predawn darkness, collapsing a house on four people in Walford and ripping the roof from a…

October 15, 2018 — Iowa Public Radio is proud to deliver the new radio edition of the popular podcast The Daily to listeners. Produced in partnership…

On the fifth episode of From the Archives, a member of the Kerner Commission discusses the findings of the report at Grinnell College during a memorial symposium honoring the late civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.

There are many origins to the Black Power Movement, but political scientist Charles V. Hamilton and his colleague Stockley Carmichael elevated it with their 1967 book Black Power: the Politics of Liberation in America. Hamilton says Black Power can organize Black people’s rage and force answers to hard questions.

Four people are dead in a shooting Friday morning at the Maquoketa Caves State Park campground

Education in Iowa has been shaped throughout history by national movements and spending priorities and funding proposed by its governors. And while today criticism of the quality of education at Iowa’s public schools runs high, school has become more accessible than ever.

10th St. Edition, Linn Marr High School’s show choir team, is moving on to the national competition in Nashville March 24.

The host of WBUR and NPR’s radio news show and podcast will give a talk on May 9 at Hoyt Sherman Place.

Floods, tornadoes, bird flu and Caitlin Clark - just a sampling of the biggest stories from Iowa in last year.