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U.S. District Judge Stephen Locher blocked parts of Iowa’s LGBTQ instruction ban but upheld other sections in a ruling issued Thursday. He made a distinction between mandatory lessons and extracurriculars, but there are still questions on what is considered instruction.

Author Mark Daley has shared his experiences fostering and what he learned along the way in the book Safe: A Memoir of Fatherhood, Foster Care and the Risks We Take for Family.

Some Iowans at the Trans Lives Festival in Des Moines say this may be their final time celebrating in the state, given a law stripping Iowa's Civil Rights Act of gender identity protections goes into effect July 1.

Actor Will Ferrell and writer Harper Steele have been collaborators and friends for 30 years.

This International Women's Day, we look back on some of our favorite interviews with influential women.

Patients are crossing Iowa’s borders to Illinois and Minnesota for care. Others are trying to leave the state entirely because of legislation targeting transgender Iowans.

The law signed by Gov. Kim Reynolds that removes gender identity from the Iowa Civil Rights Act also removes the way transgender Iowans have changed their sex designations on state birth certificates. LGBTQ rights organizations say there is still time to change a sex designation on state identifying documents since the law does not take effect until July 1.

Iowa's public libraries would not receive state assistance if they are members of state or national advocacy organizations under a bill active in the Statehouse.

Gov. Kim Reynolds signed a bill into law on Friday that will remove gender identity from the Iowa Civil Rights Act, making Iowa the first state in the U.S. to do so.

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signed a bill into law Friday that removes gender identity from the Iowa Civil Rights Act.