Articles Tagged: Flood Recovery & Protection

The City of Cedar Rapids wants the public’s help in cleaning up the city. The city has received a lot …

By James Q. Lynch  The Gazette CEDAR RAPIDS – “It ain’t perfect,” but Democratic legislative leaders defended their 2011 state …

The Veterans Memorial Commission is awaiting an engineer’s study on its ballpark before opening talks with the Cedar Rapids Kernels …

The sounds of hammer and saws echoed along the Cedar River this morning as hundreds of volunteers from Church World …

Kathy Potts, an unsuccessful candidate last fall for the City Council, is collecting signatures in hopes of forcing a referendum …

Brian Guidry will be prowling the banks of the Cedar River and nearby neighborhoods Monday, looking for his art’s raw …

FEMA has said its job is to help with flood recovery, not to make the community “whole,” but a little-discussed …

Finishing touches are being completed as one piece of the flood-recovering Czech Village readies to open this weekend. A grand …

When City Council member Monica Vernon was in Grand Forks, N.D., on business last week, she took time to tour …

More than 700 volunteers from across the United States and Canada will be in Cedar Rapids over the next six …

A cleanup effort in Iowa City following the 2008 flood is being recognized by the Iowa Department of Natural Resources. …

Nearly two years after organizing volunteers to help with flood recovery in Cedar Rapids and Palo, members of Hands On …

U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke has announced $30 million in federal aid to help Iowa recover from the devastating floods …

Commerce Secretary Gary Locke will announce today in Iowa City that four Iowa communities will receive nearly $30 million from …

Tearing down the wreckage left by the Flood of 2008 in Cedar Rapids is a job that David Zinser craves. …