Articles Tagged: Iowa Capital Dispatch

The former Elgin city clerk, originally charged with theft in the alleged misuse of $131,213 in taxpayer money, has been fined $430 after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor offense.

It’s the first of several that the Nishnabotna Water Defenders, a nonprofit advocating for water quality in southwest Iowa, plans to install.

The Nature Conservancy has studied this form of virtual fencing with cattle at its preserve in Muscatine County for the past three years.

Bondurant-based Renewablade turns blades into concrete blocks, most recently used at a credit union in Des Moines

The community college announced in a news release it was one of 60 colleges and universities across the U.S. chosen to join the national network of nearly 500 institutions.

Terry Murrell, who has served as Western Iowa Tech Community College’s president since 2011, will retire May 15, 2026.

The team was able to examine larger areas and receive information faster than if they had employed the usual tool — digging — to find what’s underneath the surface.

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources conducts a roadside survey of pheasant each August and this year’s survey shows pheasant populations are at a 20-year high.

Plans to move forward with consolidating some local boards of Early Childhood Iowa were discussed at the ECI State Board meeting Friday, though some members of the public brought up concerns about the loss of local control.

Environmental groups and members of the public attended the virtual hearing and voiced concerns about living downstream of the plant and the impacts it might have on their health.

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is offering free training courses on chronic wasting disease in deer for hunters and community members interested in managing, testing for and educating others on the disease.

Though the DNC will consider Iowa as an early state candidate, the state’s chances look slim heading into the process.

DNR plans to discuss water quality standards as they relate to antidegradation, human health criteria, per and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, lake nutrients and rights reserved for tribal nations.

The state agency that denied a request for inspection reports on a Cedar Rapids home health agency now says that denial was based on an incorrect assumption that it wouldn’t have any such records.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced it would restrict the use of federal subsidies for solar energy projects in favor of protecting farmland, but clean energy advocates say solar gives farmers a higher production value per acre than any traditional crop.