Compost and wood chips are now available in Iowa City and Cedar Rapids, though demand is high in the spring and summer seasons.
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Compost and wood chips are now available in Iowa City and Cedar Rapids, though demand is high in the spring and summer seasons.
A Coe College graduate who was the first in his Afghan village to learn how to read and write has spent the past 20 years supporting a school in his native country — one that educates girls as well as boys.
A 2021 law change that allows Iowa to fine farmers when weedkiller — particularly dicamba — drifts to neighbors’ fields is on hold, at least until later this year, as the state develops new rules for private and commercial applicators.
Massive losses in international enrollment have decimated the University of Iowa’s need for English as a Second Language services – compelling big cuts.
Linn County Supervisors will discuss and vote on allocating $11 million in American Rescue Plan Act funding next week.
Two teenagers accused of killing a Fairfield high school Spanish teacher had their appeals declined by the Iowa Supreme Court on Thursday. They had appealed a decision that would allow the public and the news media to attend a hearing about sending their case to Juvenile Court.
Wells Fargo gives a $650,000 grant to Iowa Legal Aid’s project that provides legal representation and rental assistance to those in eviction situations.
The name “Stephen Norman” may not ring a bell around Eastern Iowa, but plenty have known and loved him by his radio name, Ric Swann. Swann, for years part of Cedar Rapids' KZIA radio’s Schulte & Swann morning team, died of cancer early Wednesday in Ohio. He was 62.
Twenty people lost their lives to domestic violence in Iowa in 2021, the most in a decade.
A poll conducted for Cedar Rapids Democrat Abby Finkenauer shows her with a nearly 50-point lead over her nearest competitor in the three-way June 7 primary for the party’s U.S. Senate nomination to face Sen. Chuck Grassley.
The spread of a bird flu that is deadly to poultry raises the grisly question of how farms manage to quickly kill and dispose of millions of chickens and turkeys.
The Senate confirmed Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday, securing her place as the first Black female justice. Iowa’s U.S. Sens. Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst voted against her confirmation.
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