GOP Congressman Randy Feenstra tied his campaign for Iowa governor to President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” defended tariffs and promised to cut property taxes while expanding health care access during a campaign stop in Cedar Rapids.
State and local officials are investigating the death of a Cornell College student who was found in a dorm room Thursday night.
More than one out of six K-12 students in Iowa are attending school outside of their neighborhood public school, including enrolling into another public school, a charter school or an accredited non-public school.
A $200,000 state grant will help support NewBoCo’s development of the Iowa Aviation Technology Center, the state’s economic development agency announced Friday.
Gov. Kim Reynolds on Friday named one of the advisory council members leading a new University of Iowa Center for Intellectual Freedom to serve as a regent on the board that governs all three of Iowa’s public universities.
A car ferry moves people and vehicles between Lansing, Iowa and Wisconsin on the Mississippi River, but business owners say they still are feeling the effects of the closure of the Black Hawk Bridge, a year and a half before the replacement bridge is set to open.
Amid pending litigation, displaced collections and a public fight to maintain the Iowa City arm of the State Historical Society, officials on Friday announced a new collaboration to maintain public access to the historical collections at the University of Iowa.
Iowa’s Office of Ombudsman, which investigates complaints related to local and state government, opened 6,266 cases this year. Of those, 56 percent involved the Iowa Department of Corrections, and 24 percent involved the Iowa Department of Health and Human Services.
This week, the On Iowa Politics podcast looks back at the year that was. And what a year it was.
Although well below the numbers that cross the commencement stage every spring, more than 4,100 students at one of Iowa’s public universities have applied to graduate this winter — with ceremonies and celebrations planned throughout the weekend.
The population of Lansing may have doubled Friday morning as the community and onlookers watched a planned implosion of the 94-year-old Black Hawk Bridge over the Mississippi River.
Her social media post urged eligible workers to reach out to the agency “as soon as possible" and referred users to a fact sheet on “DEI-related discrimination.”
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