The Iowa State Fair Straw Poll is held at the Iowa Secretary of State’s fair booth and allows fairgoers to cast their votes ...

The Iowa State Fair welcomed 1,160,121 people to the fair in 2025. That's just below the attendance record of 1,182,682 ...

More than 2,000 fairgoers participated in the non-scientific straw poll conducted by the Iowa Secretary of State’s office.

Kim Reynolds, center, accepts the commissioning pennant of the submarine USS Iowa on Aug. 11 during the Veterans Day parade ...

Jeff Wagner looks at the winding road it took for the Minnesota State Fair to find its permanent home 140 years ago.

A view of the Iowa State Fairgrounds from the sky glider with the golden dome of the state capitol in the background. (/The ...

Gov. Kim Reynolds is traveling to Ireland to attend the Iowa State University football team’s game there and participate in ...

Congresswoman Elise Stefanik headlined a packed Republican fundraiser in Erie County, delivering a pointed message about the ...

Davis County Fair Queen Madi Bridgman competed in the five-day long Iowa State Fair Queen contest while having kidney stones.

The Iowa State Fair has always been a place where farmers and consumers come together, and this year’s Iowa Corn Day put the ...

Hot and humid was a consistent theme across the state in the latest Iowa Crop Progress and Condition Report from the U.S.