The county’s Planning and Zoning Commission unanimously recommended to rezone land around the nuclear energy plant.
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The county’s Planning and Zoning Commission unanimously recommended to rezone land around the nuclear energy plant.
Chinese state-backed money is remaking the hemisphere’s ports, reshaping grain routes to Asia and squeezing U.S. farmers as tariffs deepen the split with Washington.
Iowa U.S. Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks is leading House Republicans’ latest effort to lower health care costs, pitching a plan she says targets the root causes of rising premiums as Democrats warn it fails to address the looming expiration of ACA subsidies and the impact on thousands of Iowans.
Sgt. William Nathaniel Howard, 29, of Marshalltown; and Sgt. Edgar Brian Torres-Tovar, 25, of Grimes were killed Saturday during what Iowa National Guard leaders described as an ambush
Also in this week’s Government Notes, the Cedar Rapids school board approved a calendar for the 2026-27 academic year
Iowa researchers are looking to identify “hot spots” of vehicle-wildlife collisions and examining what steps could be taken to reduce them.
One of two Iowa National Guard soldiers killed in an attack Saturday in central Syria has been publicly identified by family members, while the Iowa National Guard has not yet officially released the names of the fallen service members.
An injunction blocking Iowa’s school book-removal mandate remains in place, but school leaders say the legal back-and-forth has created confusion and caution in classrooms. A pending decision from a federal appellate court could reshape what libraries and teachers are allowed to do.
Cedar Rapids Public Works Department’s streets superintendent Brian McLeod gives an inside look at the magnitude of planning and labor required to make winter travel safe through snow and ice.
The Trump administration has announced $12 billion in relief for farmers but that won’t cover all their losses.
Two members of the Iowa National Guard were killed Saturday in an attack in central Syria that U.S. officials have blamed on the Islamic State group, marking the deadliest attack on U.S. forces in the country in more than a year and coming on the 389th birthday of the National Guard.
Chuck Grassley has made a name for himself in Washington with his longtime support for whistleblowers, but he’s coming under criticism from Democrats and good government advocates who say Grassley has been conspicuously silent as the Trump administration has investigated the president's perceived enemies, fired agents who worked on politically sensitive cases and upended the Justice Department’s independence.
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