Firefighters are battling 175 wildfires across North and South Carolina, facing windy and dry conditions. The US Drought Monitor shows the conditions in Iowa are comparable to that of the Carolinas. Video from an Iowa DOT camera showed a grass fire on I-380 in Cedar Rapids Monday afternoon.

A year ago, the women’s NCAA championship game drew a bigger television audience than the men’s title game for the first time, with an average of 18.9 million viewers watching undefeated South Carolina beat Iowa and superstar Caitlin Clark.

You're most likely to find NPR's Don Gonyea on the road, in some battleground state looking for voters to sit with him at the local lunch spot, the VFW or union hall, at a campaign rally, or at their kitchen tables to tell him what's on their minds. Through countless such conversations over the course of the year, he gets a ground-level view of American elections. Gonyea is NPR's National Political Correspondent, a position he has held since 2010. His reports can be heard on all NPR News programs and at NPR.org. To hear his sound-rich stories is akin to riding in the passenger seat of his rental car, traveling through Iowa or South Carolina or Michigan or wherever, right along with him.

No. 25 Illinois. Next: at Iowa, Sunday. No. 4 Southern Cal (24-2) did not play. Next: vs. No. 25 Illinois, Sunday. No. 5 UConn (25-3) did not play. Next: at Butler, Saturday. No. 6 South Carolina (23-3) vs.

Noon No. 3 UCLA (25-1) at Iowa (18-8), 2 p.m. No. 4 Southern Cal (24-2) vs. No. 25 Illinois (21-6), 4 p.m. No. 6 South Carolina

Women’s basketball has not slowed down at all this season as March Madness arrives. A year ago, the women’s NCAA championship game drew a bigger television audience than the men’s title game for the first time, with an average of 18.9 million viewers watching undefeated South Carolina beat Iowa and superstar Caitlin Clark.

The Iowa men’s golf team triumphed with a sixth-place finish of 15 teams in the Colleton River Collegiate in Bluffton, South Carolina, on Monday — shooting 26 over par through three rounds of play.  Max Tjoa and Gage Messingham led the Hawkeyes in a tie for 17th.

In August 2024, after winning the national championship with an undefeated season run, Dawn Staley was interviewed by Forbes magazine.

Nancy Mace will be joined at the event by former Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron and Republican National Committee Chair Michael Whatley.

Iowa has the second highest incidence rate of cancer in the country, and it is already feeling Trump's cuts to the workforce and research institutions trying to solve the rural cancer problem.

The aspirations of Florida’s first lady Casey DeSantis have long been a topic of discussion in Tallahassee. Her husband Gov.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Tessa Johnson scored 16 points, and No. 6 South Carolina claimed at least a share of the Southeastern Conference regular-season championship with a 78-66 victory over No. 15 Kentucky on Sunday.