Articles Tagged: Iowa Capital Dispatch

The Iowa Board of Nursing has issued an emergency order suspending the license of registered nurse Kenneth Wayne Clark of Ankeny.

The Des Moines private university will work with Ciudad del Saber, or City of Knowledge, to offer a three-year degree program.

Temperatures across the state of Iowa were near the climatological normal, though precipitation was below average as parts of the state slid into dry conditions for the close of harvest season, according to the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship.

The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship confirmed last week that the invasive spotted lanternfly has been identified in Des Moines County in southeast Iowa.

An 18-year-old Des Moines Public Schools student was detained and deported by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to an immigrant rights group.

An Iowa company that helps state and federal agencies with taxpayer-financed health care improvement programs is being sued by a Linn County woman for alleged sexual harassment.

The National Science Foundation has awarded UNI a five-year, $4.9 million grant for the new initiative.

The judge wrote that a Creston teacher “is likely to succeed in showing ... adverse action against her in response to exercise of her First Amendment rights”

The Iowa skipper butterfly, once prevalent in prairies across the middle of the U.S., is now at risk of extinction — according to the Center for Food Safety, which has petitioned federal agencies to list the butterfly as an endangered species.

A sustainable aviation fuel developer plans to shift its immediate investment from South Dakota to North Dakota, in part because of delays in the development of a multi-state pipeline by Iowa-based Summit Carbon Solutions.

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is investigating a hog manure spill in Louisa County that has resulted in a small number of dead fish in an unnamed tributary.

Environmental groups penned a letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency urging the federal agency to maintain its previously rescinded ruling that seven segments of Iowa rivers were impaired due to nitrate concentrations.

A University of Northern Iowa professor is suing the university, alleging administrators waged a coordinated campaign to falsely “frame” her for disability discrimination while subjecting her to gender-based discrimination.

Attorneys for Summit Carbon Solutions argued Friday in Polk County District Court that the company’s proposed amendment to its permit for a carbon sequestration pipeline through Iowa should be decided on before a legal case against the permit can move forward.

Iowa biofuels and corn experts congratulated Nebraska for its first shipments of carbon dioxide on the Tallgrass Trailblazer pipeline, but said Wednesday that the development means Iowa is no longer king at turning corn into ethanol.