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

YSS, a youth social services provider in Iowa, is opening the Ember Recovery Campus with a residential addiction treatment program, crisis stabilization and crisis recovery services.

The number of deaths by suicide in Iowa decreased in 2023 for the first time, significantly, in almost 10 years, according to updated data from the Iowa Department of Health and Human Services, which also showed an increase in teen suicide rates.

A look at the candidates in Iowa's 1st, 3rd, and 4th congressional districts vying for party nominations in the June 4 primary election.

More than one in 10 young adults in the country regularly turn to e-cigarettes.

We've all heard the horror stories of angry parents in the stands yelling at the coach, the referee, other parents and even student athletes.

A new report examines current research about social media's effects on the mental and physical health of young people.

Playwright George Bernard Shaw once said, "Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself."

Debra Marquart’s latest book of essays begins, like most things in the Midwest, with the weather and 13 different ways to talk about it. From there, the essays carry us around the world and back again.

Bills proposed in the Iowa House and Senate would relax some child labor laws.