Erik Helland, the governor’s appointee to the State Public Employment Relations Board, failed to earn Senate confirmation earlier this year
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Erik Helland, the governor’s appointee to the State Public Employment Relations Board, failed to earn Senate confirmation earlier this year
A year after Mercy Iowa City announced plans to exit its four-year affiliation with the statewide MercyOne health network and integrate into a larger health care system, the community hospital is pulling the plug on its search for a new partner and sticking with MercyOne.
Maquoketa Caves State Park, where police say a man killed three people and himself, is set to reopen Thursday morning.
Seventy percent of U.S. public schools have seen an increase in the number of students seeking school mental health services.
Jim Leach says he’s looking for ‘decency’ in candidates
In its second year, the Leaders Believers Achievers Foundation’s summer program, CR Dreams, is teaching students to see their value, grow leadership skills and work toward achieving goals.
Police found the man after responding to a report of a fight and potential stabbing.
The school board voted last month to decrease the number of police in schools to five, removing them from middle schools altogether.
The Cedar Rapids Downtown Public Library is closed until further notice after a fire broke out in a light fixture above the Commons area of the library Wednesday.
Lake of Three Fires beach will be posted with signs warning swimmers of the parasite and the risk of infection. But the Iowa Department of Natural Resources does not plan follow-up testing because of CDC guidance saying there is “no established relationship between detection or concentration of
Affirming its status as the costliest hospital project in state history, the Board of Regents on Wednesday unanimously agreed to increase the budget for University of Iowa Health Care’s new facility in North Liberty by 33 percent — bringing the total price tag to $525.6 million.
The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics this year ranked in the Top 50 nationally in two of 15 U.S. News & World Report-ranked specialties — its weakest showing in at least a decade, continuing a slide from nine ranked specialties in both 2012 and 2014.
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