City’s first community impact award recognizes couple’s decades of volunteer work
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City’s first community impact award recognizes couple’s decades of volunteer work
The free, six-week Freedom School program is being offered this summer to 60 students going into sixth, seventh and eighth grades.
Iowa lost some of its largest trees in the 2020 derecho. Given that climate change may increase frequency and strength of storms, how can we increase the odds future generations have big trees to enjoy?
A white oak on track to be Iowa’s largest of its species is in the area where Navigator CO2 Ventures wants to lay an underground CO2 pipeline. The 175-year-old tree is in Lee County, 50 yards from the Mississippi River.
As she pursues her lineage with few documents left intact after World War II, Springville resident Lena Gebotszrajber Gilbert hopes to soon have Polish citizenship to prove that Hitler wasn’t ultimately successful in the genocide of millions of Jews, including most of her relatives.
The proposed moratorium, which now goes to the state Senate, would not change the rules regarding the use of eminent domain or stop the construction of the three carbon pipelines proposed in Iowa. But it would provide 11 months of a level playing field for negotiations between landowners and companies hoping to construct pipelines, according to its sponsor.
Sen. Dan Dawson says a proposal to swap taxes in order to fund conservation and water quality could still pass the Iowa Legislature
Johnnie Osborne, 28, avoided a possible life sentence Thursday by pleading guilty to lesser charges for killing his pregnant girlfriend and causing the death of her unborn child nearly two years ago.
Some of the Aghan refugees have arrived in the Cedar Rapids area, and work to help relocate Ukrainian refugees here, too, has already begun.
Iowa is donating 146 protective helmets and 714 ballistic vests to Ukraine. They are excess expired equipment from the Department of Public Safety and 18 other law enforcement agencies.
Twenty-one members of the University of Iowa Health Care community, UI administration, or Board of Regents have been appointed to a committee tasked with finding the campus’ next vice president for medical affairs and dean of its Carver College of Medicine.
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — Planned Parenthood North Central States has received an unexpected donation of $20 million from billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott.
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