Articles Tagged: Flood Recovery & Protection

Cedar Rapids plans to demolish approximately 700 flood-damaged properties by fall 2010, the city said in a release today. This …

With the cost of preservation exceeding what might be offered in federal funding, the Cedar Rapids Historic Preservation Commission is …

DES MOINES – Majority Democratic leaders worked to finalize a $5.3 billion budget plan that boosted funding for education and …

The City Hall hoo-ha this week over the demolitions of flood-damaged homes seems to have quieted into compromise. One of …

DES MOINES – Gov. Chet Culver today said President Obama “accomplished a tremendous thing” in getting landmark health-care reform enacted …

Mayor Ron Corbett and City Manager Jim Prosser both expressed disappointment Wednesday after the Iowa House or Representatives killed a …

Sherri and Dave Evans built a house in northwest Marion in 1998, when Newcastle Road was surrounded by fields, next …

Mayor Ron Corbett along with four others on the nine-member City Council last night agreed to shake up the duties …

On a dry asphalt parking lot under the warm March sun, University of Iowa crews Tuesday practiced for an epic …

Paul Meggers doesn’t want the 100-year flood plain boundary to run through his living room, but getting it changed is …

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has scaled back how much it will spend for a new Linn County Community Services …

DES MOINES – More than $32 million of the remaining $105 million in state I-JOBS bonding authority would go toward …

CEDAR RAPIDS – A new round of demolitions – this one poised to take down 281 of the as many …

The local solid waste agency will experiment on three homes beginning this week to see if it makes sense to …

UPDATE: The first of 281 flood-damaged home in Cedar Rapids got knocked to the ground this morning.  But the demolition …