A pandemic-related shortage of baby formula was exacerbated when Abbott Nutrition, which manufactures Similac, recalled several of its formulas in February. The shortage has become a constant financial and emotional burden on some Iowa parents.
In Iowa’s U.S. Senate race, Sioux City Democrat Michael Franken says he’s raised nearly $1.4 million from more than 36,000 unique donors “without one dime of corporate PAC money,.”
The Cedar Rapids Freedom Festival has announced the return of the annual Tribute to Heroes Dinner and the event’s keynote speaker, University of Iowa Women’s Wrestling Coach Clarissa Chun. The dinner is June 17 and hero nominations are still being accepted until Friday.
Jammie Bradshaw of Lone Tree said running for a seat on the board felt like the “natural next step” because she wanted to continue to serve her community after a decade of serving in the military.
A bill to safeguard residents of mobile home parks against rapid rent and fee increases, and well as adding protections against evictions, passed the Iowa House on Tuesday night despite criticism it had become too watered down to help tenants much.
The ACLU of Iowa sent letters to the cities of Coralville, Davenport, Dubuque and Bettendorf, urging each city to repeal its respective panhandling ordinance.
Democrats and Republicans praise “scrappy” Bolkcom
A hearing is scheduled Tuesday in Polk County District Court on the
The Linn County Mental Health Access Center will be open for walk-ins on weekends, beginning this Saturday.
A Florida man is suing Solon Retirement Village for failing to provide management and oversight of staff — one nurse who is criminally charged with stealing from his aunt — as well as other staff members who didn’t provide proper medical care and treatment for his loved one.
Indiana State Police identified Harry Edward Greenwell, who died in Iowa in 2013, as the suspect who raped and killed three women in Indiana and Kentucky in the late 1980s as they were working night shifts as motel clerks.
B.J. Dvorak, who has been the agency’s plans and exercises officer since 2019, will start April 9. He succeeds Steve O’Konek, who is retiring after leading the agency for four years.
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