This past week saw a lot of exciting action from Iowa high school male sports teams from the Des Moines metro area. Highlights include the Adel-Desoto-Minburn Tiger Invitational wrestling tournament and the Bob Sharp Invitational boys wrestling tournament on Jan.

Iowa women’s basketball will be without one of its top weapons at Oregon as the Hawkeyes try to end their four-game losing streak.

Iowa State men's basketball may have looked invincible lately, but the Cyclones were always going to have a night like Saturday.

West Des Moines has a plan to deal with a busy, controversial piece of Ashworth Road when it begins a complete renovation of the busy east-west corridor next year.

Here is a look at this week’s High School on SI Top 10 Iowa high school boys basketball rankings by class for the week of Jan. 20: 1. West Des Moines Valley (10-2) Previous rank: 4 A big week for the Tigers resulted in wins over West Des Moines Dowling and Waukee Northwest.

Valley High School saw 300 tardies and 580 unexcused absences per day during the first semester of school this year.

The head of the Iowa National Guard asked legislators to improve the Iowa National Guard Service Scholarship and add exceptions to the state’s chronic absenteeism law for high school military recruits and members.

An attorney for the City of West Des Moines, Iowa faced tough questions Thursday from an Eighth Circuit panel over the city’s disputed lower-court win in a contract dispute with a security contractor who publicly criticized the Black Lives Matter movement.

Iowa Rep. Ray "Bubba" Sorensen introduced the bill after a bamboo shark bit a worker's hand in an aquarium in West.

DES MOINES, Iowa (Gray Media Iowa State Capitol Bureau) - Iowa will buy Minnesota’s nine most southern-most counties if an Iowa lawmaker has his way. State Senator Mike Bousselot, a Republican from Ankeny, says Iowa has lower taxes and regulations and would make for a better quality of life for the people and businesses in those nine counties.

The West Virginia Mountaineers (13-4, 4-2) upset the No. 2 Iowa State Cyclones (15-2, 5-1) Saturday evening, 64-57. West Virginia head coach Darian DeVries met

The Iowa State women's basketball team is back in the Big 12 Conference race after a three-game winning streak. The Cyclones will try to stay hot when they take on No. 20 West Virginia at noon Sunday in Morgantown, West Virginia.