Iowa Capital Dispatch

A lawsuit against Henry County and Mt. Pleasant officials has been dismissed because the plaintiff — a lawyer who claimed his rights had been violated — missed a filing deadline.

Last November, attorney Beau Bergmann and the Bergmann Law Firm

An Iowa nursing home is challenging the state’s position that it unfairly evicted a resident from the facility for using marijuana.

In a lawsuit filed recently in Polk County District Court, Ankeny Health Care Enterprises, which operates the 91-resident Sunny View Care Center in Ankeny, says it evicted, or involuntary discharged, a resident of the home earlier this yea...

A former central Iowa physician who allegedly admitted using cocaine daily before entering treatment is arguing in court that efforts to suspend his license threaten his livelihood and would be “the kiss of death” for his medical practice in California.

According to the Iowa Board of Medicine, Dr. Chad Becker, who once practiced at UnityPoint Health’s Iowa Methodist Me...

The Iowa Board of Nursing has issued an emergency order suspending the license of a Davenport nurse due to the alleged threat he poses to the public.

The licensing board alleges that Glenn Thronson, an Iowa-licensed nurse since 2021, currently poses an “immediate danger to the public.”

According to the board, at some unspecified time in the past it received and ...

With the primaries over, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Rob Sand said Thursday his general election approach will remain focused on bipartisanship and finding “reasonable” solutions for Iowans as he faces off against businessman Zach Lahn in November.

Sand spoke at the Iowa Association of Business and Industry conference in Coralville. The nonpartisan gubernatorial...