Gambling & Casinos

Iowa's stake in March Madness is no more, but sports betting across the state runs high.

Cedar Rapids will move forward with plans for a $275 million casino now that the Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission authorized a gaming license for Linn County.

A bill advancing in the Iowa Senate would prohibit Iowa cities from maintaining citizen review boards of their police departments.

Officials at the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation are alleged to have lied to their own agents in pushing forward an investigation into online gambling by University of Iowa and Iowa State University student athletes.

Iowa State quarterback Hunter Dekkers has been accused of gambling on Cyclones sports events, including a football game, and was charged Tuesday with tampering with records related to an Iowa Criminal Division investigation into sports gambling.

The University of Iowa announced Monday that 26 athletes across five sports are suspected of wagering on sports in violation of NCAA rules, and more than 100 people have been linked to an investigation.

IPR's Kendall Crawford and Jason Clayworth of Axios Des Moines join Ben Kieffer to discuss the strains on western Iowa's foster care system and how casinos and sports betting have become a billion-dollar industry in the state. Later, healthcare administrator Devin Juel explains why his nursing home and assisted living facility can no longer accept new patients and Iowa State University's Ryan Bergman describes John Deere's newest autonomous tractor.

Casinos in Council Bluffs and Sioux City will face stiff competition from new casinos opening up across the border in Nebraska within the next few years.

Linn County voters will get another chance on Tuesday to weigh in on whether there should be gambling in the community. What they decide could affect communities and nonprofits across the state that depend on revenues from their own casinos.

The top finishers at Quarter Horse races this weekend will have to give up a hair or two to show they were racing clean. The new protocol at Prairie…