The Carroll County Democratic Party will honor lifelong Carroll resident, community member, and former Iowa State Senate nominee Mary Bruner at a celebration this week featuring major candidates for the 2022 Democratic nomination to represent Iowa in the United States Senate.

Republican Jim Carlin says reports of Sen. Charles Grassley’s assured reelection later this year are greatly exaggerated.

Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Mike Franken, a retired admiral, says the nation now condones political violence, a fact he says emerged with former President Donald Trump putting his own power and ego ahead of the gravity of the role of commander in chief.

U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst, a fitness-conscious former military leader, is a regular on the Washington Mall. She routinely jogs by monuments and memorials honoring the nation’s history and culture. Soon — she hopes within five years — the mall, which runs from The Lincoln Memorial to the U.S. Capi…

U.S. Rep. Randy Feenstra, R-Iowa, has introduced the Preserving Rights of Tenants by Ensuring Compliance to (PROTECT) the Second Amendment Act.

MANILLA: Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Dave Muhlbauer, a son and grandson of state legislators, Tuesday morning ended his campaign months after his 4-year-old nephew Jed Riesselman died in an accident.

MANILLA: Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Dave Muhlbauer, the son and grandson of state legislators, Tuesday morning ended his campaign months after his 4-year-old nephew Jed Riesselman died in an accident.

AUBURN: Auburn businessman and Carroll High School alum Ryan O’Leary has filed federal election and related paperwork to run for Congress as an independent, he confirmed to the Times Herald Sunday morning.

As a western Iowan who worked in two packing plants, grew up the son of a teacher and machinist and served decades in the Navy, Ret. Adm. Mike Franken sees himself as the sort of independent-minded — and branded —  Democrat who can cut trough GOP-leaning tribalism in a statewide race.

AMES: Gov. Kim Reynolds insists a life in Washington is not for her.

State Sen. Craig Williams, a longtime Republican leader in local and state political circles who captured an Iowa Senate seat last year after helping to party build and develop other candidates for decades, will not run in the newly drawn district in which he resides.

State Rep. Brian Best, R-Glidden, the lone sitting Iowa House member in a newly drawn four-county, says he will seek election to the seat.

DES MOINES: Supporters of former President Trump who showed up in the thousands at the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines expressed anxieties with the economy — especially gas prices — along with major distrust of President Biden and the media. One woman said she harbors fears of a “racial war.”

Retired three-star Admiral Michael Franken of Sioux City has officially announced he will seek the Democratic nomination to unseat Senator Charles Grassley in 2022.

Tom Miller, the nation’s longest-serving state attorney general, will seek an 11th four-year term in the office next fall, saying he is “energized, challenged and fulfilled” by such efforts as the pursuit of anti-trust cases against dominant tech companies — like Facebook — and seeing throug…

DES MOINES: Democrat Deidre DeJear, a business leader from Des Moines and former candidate for Iowa secretary of state, Saturday officially launched her campaign for governor at an event in Des Moines.

Minden physician Dr. Glenn Hurst, a candidate for U.S. Senate, wants to see Medicare extended to all Americans and expanded to include dental and vision coverage.

Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Dr. Glenn Hurst said Iowans need only look at his small city of Minden to see life in a defund-the-police environment. Echoing the sentiments of many calling for major reforms around the nation — and slashing or reallocation of police budgets — Hurst, a Minde…

Retired Adm. Michael Franken of Sioux City, a native of the Sioux Center area of Iowa, this afternoon said he plans to run for the U.S. Senate seat now held by veteran Republican Sen. Charles Grassley.

Dr. Glenn Hurst of Minden, who has a track record of involvement in Iowa Democratic politics, has announced his candidacy for the U.S. Senate.

Democrat U.S. Senate candidate Dave Muhlbauer began his first 99-county tour of Iowa Friday with a meet-and-greet campaign stop open to the public at Carroll’s Queen Beans coffeehouse on Clark Street.

Democrat U.S. Senate candidate Dave Muhlbauer will kick off his first 99-county tour of Iowa this Friday with a campaign stop that’s open to the public beginning at noon at Queen Beans, 522 Clark St.

SIOUX CITY: Union organizers are seeking to expand support beyond President Biden and U.S. House Democrats for what they say is their No. 1 legislative priority for working men and women — the so-called PRO Act that would make it easier for unions to gain members and collectively bargain, an…

DES MOINES: South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem is an up-and-coming figure in the Republican Party after her management of the coronavirus pandemic, which has received praise and criticism from both political parties.

Phil Thompson looks back on his time in Iraq as an 18-year-old Army private and equates it to “drinking water from a fire hose.”

DES MOINES: Three potential Republican presidential candidates collectively lambasted many Democrats’ views on race relations and spotlighted state-level anti-abortion successes and other bedrock GOP positions in headlining one of the state’s premier conservative gatherings Friday in Des Moines.

SIOUX CENTER: U.S. Rep. Randy Feenstra held the first-ever Feenstra Family Picnic in Sioux Center today, with special guest former Vice President Mike Pence headlining the event.

Small business owner Deidre DeJear, a former candidate for Iowa Secretary of State and high-profile figure in Democratic politics, this week launched a listening tour along with an exploratory committee to examine the possibility of developing a competitive campaign for Iowa governor in 2022.

Two-thirds of Iowa voters think it is time for a fresh face for the U.S. Senate in the 2022 Iowa midterm, according to a new Iowa poll, but U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, said that when determining if he will run again, he is listening to Iowans, not polling.

KIRON: Finding a former congressperson often is easier said than done. But a Google search, a trip through the Boyer Valley phone directory and a bit of advice from churchgoers in Kiron (pop. 300) make finding the home of former U.S. Rep. Steve King almost as simple as driving down a dusty c…

State Rep. Ras Smith, a Waterloo Democrat, launched a bid for governor last week, pinning his hopes on a bridge-building message of unity he thinks still can be achieved in Iowa.

Former Vice President Mike Pence, an Indiana Republican, will headline Congressman Randy Feenstra’s first-ever Feenstra Family Picnic in Sioux Center in July.

AUBURN: Auburn businessman and Carroll High School alum Ryan O’Leary says he’s planning to run for Congress as an independent.

State Sen. Jim Carlin, a Republican from Woodbury County, visited the Carroll County Republican Central Committee at the Family Table Restaurant in Carroll Monday morning for the organization’s monthly breakfast meeting.

LAKE VIEW: Gov. Kim Reynolds Wednesday afternoon ruled out a U.S. Senate bid — should Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, opt not to seek an eighth term in 2022 — and said she was “probably” running for re-election as governor and would make a “formal” announcement later.

State Auditor Rob Sand today said he is considering a run for governor next year and likely will make an announcement by Labor Day about a bid for Terrace Hill or re-election to his current statewide office.

MANILLA: Former Crawford County Supervisor Dave Muhlbauer, a Manilla farmer and cattleman with deep family roots in rural Iowa politics, this morning announced his bid for U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley’s seat.

As he took the oath of office today, Joe Biden became at least the eighth president of the United States to have visited Carroll County in person.

National Democratic Oval Office front-runner Joe Biden woke up in Carroll on a December 2019 Sunday, attended Mass at St. Lawrence Catholic Church and filled up on Queen Beans oatmeal before continuing a barnstorming tour of Iowa in which the former vice president made the case that he was t…

Journalist and author Carl Bernstein tells CNN — and repeats it on his Twitter feed — that U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, is among 21 GOP senators who think President Trump is unfit for office, and has told aides and colleagues just that.

State Rep. Brian Best is recovering from heart-bypass surgery with the confidence that life for the Glidden Republican soon will return to normal.

President Donald Trump carried Carroll County with 68 percent of the vote and hit the 80 percent support threshold in some southern reaches of the county.

Craig Williams, the Carroll County Republican chairman and an experienced local political leader who worked behind the scenes for other candidates for decades, earned a seat in the Iowa Senate Tuesday with a commanding win in one of the larger geographic districts in the state.

In his most-sweeping victory to date, State Representative Brian Best tonight retained his seat representing Iowa’s 12th District.

Carroll County residents supported Republican candidates in all contested races in Tuesday's election.

State Rep. Brian Best will undergo heart-bypass surgery in Des Moines Friday morning to repair blockages, the Glidden Republican said this afternoon in a phone call from his room at MercyOne Medical Center.

Only weeks before moderators pressed Iowa’s two U.S. Senate candidates on the price of corn and soybeans in a televised debate, Theresa Greenfield talked about those two commodity metrics on two Greene County farms.