The Iowa City Fire Department has installed a new safety system that sends a notification to nearby drivers when the department is active on an emergency scene.
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The Iowa City Fire Department has installed a new safety system that sends a notification to nearby drivers when the department is active on an emergency scene.
Also in this week’s Government Notes, Marion unveils new Uptown sculpture
About 20,000 people were expected at the Field of Dreams movie site in Dyersville Saturday for a sold-out show headlined by country music star Tim McGraw.
Savannah Blake, photojournalist at The Gazette, shares the story behind this reflective photo.
As plans to replace the Burlington Street Bridge progress, the entities involved in the project are determining how to balance different community priorities for the main connection between the west side of Iowa City and downtown.
Since naloxone vending machines were installed across Linn County, the need has been apparent with more frequent than scheduled restocking. The machines dispense the drug that can reverse an overdose from prescription drugs like oxycodone or fentanyl and street drugs like heroin.
Two of the men convicted in the fatal stabbing of Chris Bagley in 2018 sat in a Linn County courtroom two weeks ago and spoke to Bagley’s heartbroken parents and siblings, who have been searching for answers about how — and why — their loved one was killed more than six years ago.
Johnson County is expanding its Community Violence Intervention program with the addition of new outreach worker Marques Brooks. Brooks, who described himself as “a troubled youth,” said he knows what it's like to persevere through hard times.
The campaign for Iowa Senate District 1 lasted two months and cost more than $100,000 in total campaign spending and involved tens of thousands of volunteers. And as of last Tuesday, the Democrat stands as the winner, breaking the GOP supermajority in the Iowa Senate and flipping the seat from R to D.
Mark Seckman joined the Marion Economic Development Corp. two years ago and is now working to set the community up for continued success.
Dive After Dark, a cannonball contest organized by the nonprofit Iowa Giving Crew, invited the public to compete to raise money to help local schools, families and neighbors in need.
The Iowa Department of Ag announced this week a pilot project that will provide $3 million to encourage farmers and landowners in the watersheds upstream from the Des Moines and Cedar Rapids metro areas to add perennial buffers to fields along streams.
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