Government & Politics

Iowa City Public Works Director Ron Knoche has worked in the city’s public works department for 25 years. This year he was named one of the national top ten public works leaders of the year by the American Public Works Association.

The Cedar Rapids Water Pollution Control Facility in the coming years will see $277.5 million in improvements that enhance its capacity to treat wastewater and reduce its environmental impact with new technologies. Here’s what the project will do.

Cedar Rapids doesn’t require large companies, such as manufacturing plants and food processors, to pretreat industrial wastewater. This system — popular with companies because they don’t have to maintain their own treatment facilities — is unique in Iowa and unusual for mid-size cities across the United States.

Johnson County Auditor Travis Weipert said there have been election workers who have decided not to return to the practice amid increased scrutiny.

Iowa providers will be reimbursed by the state for emergency contraception provided to sexual assault victims, but abortion services for victims will not be reimbursed, according to a new policy announced Friday by Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird following a 17-month review conducted by her office.

Mariannette Miller-Meeks faces David Pautsch in Tuesday’s GOP primary

On this week’s episode, looking at fundraising in Iowa’s statehouse campaigns, previewing the Iowa primary, and the one-year anniversary of the downtown Davenport building collapse.

Iowa Republican officials condemned the trial and unanimous guilty verdict by a New York jury as a politically motivated “sham.”