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About 400 workers at Planned Parenthood offices in five states, including Iowa, said Thursday they plan to unionize.
Testing sites include Cedar Rapids metro area, Central City, Monticello, Decorah
Ray Liotta, the actor best known for playing mobster Henry Hill in “Goodfellas” and baseball player Shoeless Joe Jackson in “Field of Dreams,” has died. He was 67.
Iowa state park rangers and staff told to move out of state-owned housing now have until the end of 2023, according to budget proposal passed by the Iowa Senate and House this week.
Even Republicans, with strong majorities in both chambers, could not always agree on policies or the budget.
The pilot program is expected to make preschool more accessible to families who can’t drop off and pick up their children during work hours
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The Iowa Legislature wants to spend $1 million next year to revise the state’s long-standing nitrogen fertilizer calculator used in seven corn-growing states. Some water quality advocates fear the update will mean more fertilizer applied to fields and more runoff into streams and lakes, but two Iowa State professors welcome the opportunity for new research into the nitrogen question.
With the Country Club’s expansion receiving the OK from five voting City Council members, questions remain over whether the city should tighten language in its ethics policy guiding how the part-time elected officials declare conflicts of interest
The state education budget lawmakers finalized early Wednesday includes a fraction of the $22.1 million increase Iowa’s public universities sought for the upcoming budget year.
Salvador Ramos, 18, used an AR-15-style semi-automatic rifle in the bloodshed Tuesday at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde that ended with police storming a fourth-grade classroom and killing him. He had legally bought two such rifles just days before.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, on Wednesday called for passage of his Eagles Act, to expand the Secret Service National Threat Assessment Center with a greater focus on school violence prevention.
The Coralville City Council is moving forward with filling a council vacancy by appointment, and is now accepting applications from interested residents.
Recent hunt didn’t produce any birds, but did offering interesting sites, sounds and a friendly visitor
Charles City Democratic Rep. Todd Prichard, a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve, opposed the bill. He noted the AR-15 type rifles allowed for hunting were similar to those he was trained to use in the military and that the ammunition authorized in the bill can travel up to 2½ miles.
