The National Weather Service on Sunday afternoon downgraded the risk of severe storms in Eastern Iowa on Monday, but the higher risk remains for much of the northern third of the state.
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The National Weather Service on Sunday afternoon downgraded the risk of severe storms in Eastern Iowa on Monday, but the higher risk remains for much of the northern third of the state.
Michael Wagler spent more than two decades with the Iowa Economic Development Authority’s Main Street Iowa program before taking AARP Iowa’s lead post
Linn County Attorney Nick Maybanks knew the sex abuse cases usually took longer to move through the system, but when he started looking at the data it was more “compelling” than he thought. There are 80 open cases - four have been pending since 2021 and 12 since 2023. He asked the court if they could work together to speed up the process.
Cedar Rapids schools to continue to offer free, half-day preschool at Truman and other elementary schools while state lawmakers have not acted on funding for full-day programs.
The U.S. faces a crucial shortage of medical providers, especially in rural areas. The problem has been building for a while, experts say, but the pandemic accelerated it by pushing many doctors over the edge into early retirement or other fields.
Energy companies with infrastructure in Iowa would have the first opportunity to build new electric transmission lines, and nuclear growth would be encouraged under legislation proposed by Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds. But how would the legislation impact Iowans’ energy bills? On that, there is much disagreement.
World leaders and Catholic faithful bade farewell to Pope Francis in a funeral Saturday that highlighted his concern for people on the “most peripheral of the peripheries” and reflected his wishes to be remembered as a simple pastor.
Partial funding of Title X family planning services has raised concerns, with an Iowa clinic receiving less than half its previous funding.
Volunteers are planting 4,000 trees on the University of Iowa campus this month to create the state’s second — and largest — Miyawaki forest, a self-sustaining dense ecosystem that increases biodiversity.
Escucha Mi Voz, a nonprofit organization that works with immigrants in the Iowa City area, filed a formal civil rights complaint Friday against the Iowa State Patrol and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement after seven Latin American construction workers were stopped while driving home from work last week near Dubuque.
A Cedar Rapids man who was charged in 2022 with multiple charges of sexual abuse of three children pleaded Friday and faces up to 30 years in prison.
The suit, filed by Gov. Kim Reynolds and announced by her office Friday, aims to stop the release of several office communications to the Des Moines Register on the grounds of “executive privilege.”
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