Articles Tagged: Infrastructure

Personal information of more than 20,000 Iowa Medicaid members was compromised in a data breach of a state contractor last year, the Iowa Health and Human Services Department announced Tuesday.

Also, new website aims to connect veterans with jobs in Iowa

The Gazette researched where Iowans get their water, how it is or isn’t treated, and threats to the vital resource.

The Green Infrastructure Equality Project will feature an educational campaign and full cost reimbursement for implementation of soil quality restoration practices in the project area south of Interstate 80.

Iowa’s state transportation commission would be required to prioritize making Highway 30 four lanes under a bill advanced Monday.

Cedar Rapids and Marion, like many cities around the Unites States, have been constructing more roundabouts over the past decade.

Iowa has been allocated $2.2 billion under the infrastructure bill passed a year ago so far, according to the White House. That includes funds for road maintenance, airports, water quality and more. More funding will be allocated over the five-year span of the law.

A key piece of the revitalization of Uptown Marion, the city’s historical business district, has taken two construction seasons to compete and now has officially reopened Seventh Street — the main drag through the district of boutique shops, restaurants and galleries.

Iowa’s small towns, many of which are declining in population, struggle to fund necessary infrastructure projects. Some, like Ely in Linn County, are looking to alternative funding options.

A pair of former Iowa broadcast journalists running for an Eastern Iowa congressional seat argued policy over abortion, infrastructure, parental rights and more in their first televised debate before the Nov. 8 general election.

Iowa generates more than half of its electricity with wind, but clean energy advocates say the state and nation can do even more

The long-awaited Seventh Avenue streetscape project in Uptown Marion is entering its final phase, which will close part of the busy street for the next two months.

The RAISE Grant funding would pay for more than half the remaining costs and speed up the overall project’s timeline by more than a decade.

The funding would go toward sanitary sewer and water infrastructure projects

But Iowa’s role within an expansive power grid helps protect it from rolling outages and blackouts.