The council voted yes to direct staff to draft an ordinance as a way to get more information about traffic camera programs
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The council voted yes to direct staff to draft an ordinance as a way to get more information about traffic camera programs
Only a small group of House Republicans back panel
Paul Trombino has resigned as director of the Iowa Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management four months after taking the job.
“Some cities and counties are in a different place in fighting the pandemic, but the Legislature and the governor do not see it that way, which to me is disappointing,” Mayor Brad Hart told The Gazette
The county closed the buildings during last fall’s COVID-19 spike
The state’s seven-day average for new cases is under 200 for the first time since April 2020
Campuswide mask mandates lifted; vaccines encouraged but not required
Due to a lack of qualified candidates, the Cedar Rapids Police Department is looking to recruit already certified police officers from other law enforcement agencies.
DES MOINES — Calling it a “fairness issue,” Gov. Kim Reynolds called for a state law to prohibit transgender students …
A federal judge has certified as class-action a lawsuit a group of University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics employees – including nurses and custodians – filed two years ago accusing their employer of, among other things, failing to pay wages and overtime on time.
Mount Mercy University has picked a new president: Dr. Todd Olson, current vice president for student affairs at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.
On the second day of the murder trial, prosecutors used a partial confession and a surveillance video to build their case that Christhian Bahena Rivera, 26, stabbed and killed university of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts, 20, in 2018.
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