The City of Cedar Rapids is moving forward with the process of selecting a new police chief after being without a permanent chief for five months. Assistant to the City Manager Amanda Grieder said in a meeting Monday that the city hopes to have the job opening posted by the end of the week.
Thousands of Iowa families will receive $120 in food assistance to cover the past summer months as part of the Pandemic Electronic Benefits Transfer federal program.
The issue was prominent at an event held this past weekend in Iowa, hosted by the Christian conservative advocacy organization the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition.
Reynolds’ campaign on Monday announced All-American swimmer Riley Gaines as the governor's special guest for her 6th Annual Harvest Festival Oct. 14 at the Iowa State Fairgrounds.
Also, filing deadline this week for local candidates to get on November ballot
Iowa College Aid commissioners are asking to take on more of a role in the search for a new executive director after the former director resigned in August.
Three of Iowa's four congressional seats — which Democrats held as recently as 2020 — are still winnable, Iowa Democrats say, but the party doesn’t have candidates for two of them thus far.
Ten Republican presidential candidates spoke about faith, abortion, religious freedom and other topics in front of more than 1,000 evangelical voters in Iowa
Iowa Democrats voted on Saturday to hold their 2024 caucuses on Jan. 5, the same day as Republicans. Under the party’s proposal, the caucuses would only be a party organizing meeting, while the presidential preference count that has historically put the caucuses in the national spotlight will be held via a mail-in process at a different time.
As a first step to repurposing the closed golf course at Jones Park in Cedar Rapids, the city has opened 10-court pickleball complex in the park, 2901 Fruitland Blvd. SW.
The Iowa Public Information Board says it is considering to propose a change to state law to accommodate local governments that say they field open records requests that are “abusive and harassing.” Government transparency advocates warn the proposal would “seriously erode” the state’s open records law.
In court filings, prosecutors alleged Justin Mezera “amassed a collection of child pornography that included more than 15,000 images and more than 800 videos of child pornography.”
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