The Latest Breaking News from Iowa

Former Vice President Mike Pence filed paperwork on Monday declaring his campaign for president in 2024, setting up a challenge to his former boss, Donald Trump, just two years after their time in the White House ended with an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and Pence fleeing for his life.

Recovery efforts are continuing at the site of a partially collapsed building in Davenport, Iowa, where one man was found dead and two others remain missing

Branden Colvin Sr is the first confirmed fatality in building that partially collapsed in Davenport last week

In his first week on the campaign trail as a presidential candidate, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis repeatedly hit his chief rival, Donald Trump, from the right

The mega-popular Iowa star and reigning Naismith Player of the Year made her presence known in a major way on Saturday.

Aspirants including Ron DeSantis and Mike Pence rally the crowd but none mention the ex-president by name, giving the impression of a party in denial

Aaron Aguilar, who worked and lived at the building on 324 Main Street before it changed owners in 2021, tells The Independent that concerns about the building’s safety came long before the collapse last week

Eight Republican presidential hopefuls are in Iowa on Saturday to attend a political event hosted by Sen. Joni Ernst

Search efforts have been called off but three residents of the building complex remain unaccounted for, Andrea Blanco reports