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Among $2-plus billion in upcoming University of Iowa Health Care construction -- including a $1 billion, 842,000-square-foot inpatient tower near Kinnick Stadium -- is an expanded burn treatment center, now facing a 10-percent budget hike due to the “challenging and complex nature” of hospital renovation work.

The school district’s budget for the 2024-25 school year to be approved by the school board Tuesday

If there was a project that needed a little help, a program that needed a boost or a person in need, Bill Quinby was the person to contact. Quinby died in his sleep Saturday morning at the age of 92.

Six years since leaders of Iowa State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine warned lawmakers “we won’t get accredited again” without building — or at least making progress toward — a new stand-alone Veterinary Diagnostic Lab, the state and university have collaborated to do just that.

School board to consider district’s budget Monday

Any funds that would otherwise have been directed to DEI offices at the end of fiscal 2025 would be directed to the Iowa Workforce Grant and Incentive Program under the bill.

The bill is a streamlined version of a proposal made earlier this year by Gov. Kim Reynolds.

The Domestic Violence Intervention Program plans to apply for the sexual-assault grant funds announced by the attorney general’s office Wednesday, DVIP Executive Director Kristie Fortmann-Doser told The Gazette.