The state is seeking to restrict any food or beverage that qualifies for the state sales tax from purchase with SNAP. That list includes garden seeds, candy, gum, soft drinks and certain granola bars among other items.
When the game got underway, no one among the 2,670 fans in attendance could have imagined what was going to happen before halftime.
Modeled after the famed Cheyenne Frontier Days in Wyoming, Cedar Rapids aimed to rival the original.
At least six Iowa cities have them: Cedar Rapids, Coralville, Iowa City, University Heights, Dubuque and Ames. The law takes effect Aug. 16.
The historic Black Hawk Bridge over the Mississippi River at Lansing is closed again after sensors detected it was swaying too much, forcing drivers who need to cross the river to detour at least 70 miles out their way to take other bridges instead.
Family of Jennifer Russell, 22, of Waterloo, asked a judge Monday to sentence an Iowa City teen to 10 years in prison for killing their loved one in a drag racing crash in May of 2023.
A Cedar Rapids man was shot to death in Minneapolis last week after a fight inside a vehicle, according to press releases from the Minneapolis Police Department and the Hennepin County Medical Examiner.
Several Republicans in the Iowa House have been highly critical of the way the current chair handled the commission’s review and approval of the involuntary taking of land with compensation to build a carbon dioxide pipeline across the state.
Before regents on Monday authorized their executive director to hire a firm, form a committee, and develop a timeline for the upcoming search to replace outgoing Iowa State University President Wendy Wintersteen, one lawmaker reminded them of a new law governing the selection process.
Greenpeace wants a North Dakota judge to reduce the nearly $667 million in damages it was ordered to pay the developer of the Dakota Access Pipeline in March, arguing that the award is excessive and unreasonable.
Available at the Cedar Valley Humane Society
Iowa, with 3.2 million residents, has a total of about 760 inpatient mental health beds that are staffed to care for patients. The Treatment Advocacy Center says the “absolute minimum” of such beds would translate to about 960 for Iowa’s population, and the optimal number would be about 1,920.
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