Iowa
Iowa has just one billionaire. How did the richest Iowa’s net worth change?
Harry Stine: What you need to know about Iowa’s richest person
Harry Stine has been repeatedly listed as the richest Iowan by Forbes magazine.
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Iowa is home to one lone billionaire and he lives in a town of 6,000 people.
Every year, Forbes releases a list of the richest people in the world. Iowa only has one person representing the state on the list and he is from Adel.
Who is the richest person in Iowa in 2025?
Harry Stine is the richest person in Iowa and the state’s only billionaire, according to Forbes.
Stine started farming at 5 years old. He still owns a small home down the road from his business headquarters in Adel, according to Forbes. Stine is dyslexic and moderately autistic. He is 83 years old and is married with four children.
How did Harry Stine become the richest person in Iowa?
Stine owns Stine Seeds and thousands of acres of land in Iowa, according to a Forbes article in 2014. He built his agriculture empire by licensing corn and soybean genetics to Monsanto and Syngenta, according to Forbes.
In the 1990s, Stine “struck highly lucrative licensing deals with large multinational corporations across the globe, which form the backbone of his empire,” Forbes said.
What is the richest person in Iowa’s net worth?
Stine’s net worth reached new highs in 2025, surpassing $10 billion. His wealth has continually been on the rise since 2020, according to Forbes. In 2024, Forbes recorded his net worth at $9.7 billion.
How does Stine compare to other billionaires?
In 2025, Stine ranked in 264th place among more than 3,000 billionaires in the world tracked by Forbes. This is a drop from 2024 when he was ranked No. 237. Tesla CEO Elon Musk topped the Forbes global billionaire chart with a net worth of $342 billion.
Are there any other billionaires with Iowa ties?
While Stine is the only billionaire to reside in Iowa, he isn’t the only Iowan to become a billionaire.
Julia Koch is an Iowa native and she has a net worth $74.2 billion. Julia Koch and her three children inherited a stake in Koch Inc. after the death of her husband, David Koch. Julia Koch moved to New York in the 1980s to work as an assistant to fashion designer Adolfo.
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TAMA COUNTY, Iowa — A pair of power outages left more than 700 people without power in Tama County Friday afternoon.
Alliant Energy says the larger outage, just north of Garwin, was caused by a semi-truck striking one of their power poles. That outages impacted 690 customers as of 5 p.m. Friday.
The smaller outage impacted roughly 36 people in Tama. The outage was caused by equipment needing repairs.
Alliant says crews are on site and working to fix both outages.
SPIRIT LAKE, Iowa (KTIV) – The Iowa Great Lakes community is remembering Leo “Butch” Parks, a longtime lakes-area businessman and founder of Parks Marina.
He died Tuesday, Jan. 6, at the age of 81.
Parks established the marina on East Lake Okoboji in 1983, growing it from a small fishing boat operation into a business with marinas, sales, service, rentals, storage, and popular destinations like the Barefoot Bar.
Parks and his wife, Debbie, also owned Okoboji Boat Works for 23 years.
Funeral services are set for Friday, Jan. 16, at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Spirit Lake. It will be followed by a celebration of life at Snapper’s restaurant in Okoboji that evening.
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Iowa woman accused of pandering for prostitution and harassment after incidents at Casey’s and a daycare
AURELIA, Iowa (KTIV) – A Northwest Iowa woman is facing charges of harassment and pandering for prostitution after two incidents took place in December 2025.
Forty-seven-year-old Kristal Miller of Odebolt was taken into custody on an arrest warrant and faces three charges: one count of pandering for prostitution and two counts of first-degree harassment, according to court documents.
The charges stem from two separate incidents that took place on Thursday, Dec. 18. 2025.
According to court documents, at 6:15 a.m., Miller reportedly went to the Casey’s General Store, located at 100 Pearl St. in Aurelia. Documents state Miller approached an employee and customers, requesting money from them.
Authorities state Miller claimed she was wanted by the FBI and told people, if anyone called the police, “she would kill them.”
During this encounter, she also allegedly asked an employee to remove the string from her hooded sweatshirt. Documents state when the employee refused this request, she threatened to strangle them.
That same day at 7 a.m., Miller reportedly approached a female employee outside an Aurelia daycare and asked them for money.
Court documents stated Miller suggested the unnamed employee leave her boyfriend. Miller reportedly told the employee, if she did, then she and Miller would both be paid.
Authorities say when she was told no by the employee, Miller became upset and started yelling at them.
Miller also allegedly threatened to “steal her car” and ”take her away to her guys to start a new life.”
She was booked into the Cherokee County Jail on a cash-only bond of $5,000. A preliminary hearing has been scheduled in Cherokee for Friday, Jan. 9, at 10 a.m.
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