Two Iowa resettlement agencies are helping White South African families recently classified by the Trump administration as refugees find new ground.

It was a standing-room-only crowd at the Veterans Memorial Building in Cedar Rapids as former U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigeg spoke.

Pete Buttigieg has returned to Iowa with some messages about what’s changed since he ran in the state’s 2020 Democratic presidential caucuses.

Republican Rep. Randy Feenstra has filed paperwork to run for governor of Iowa in the 2026 election. Feenstra, a third-term congressman from Hull, Iowa, won his 2024 reelection with over 67 percent of the vote;