Amber Markham, director of external affairs for the Nature Conservancy, has been working to keep the credits in Iowa, through her work with the Nature Conservancy.
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Amber Markham, director of external affairs for the Nature Conservancy, has been working to keep the credits in Iowa, through her work with the Nature Conservancy.
Iowa’s 15 community colleges in 2024 made year-over-year enrollment gains in 2024 thanks largely to record joint enrollment by high school students wanting to earn community college credit at no cost to them or their families.
Aquatic business has grown to include more than 180 display tanks and 12 outdoor ponds.
Pattison Sand Company has asked to nearly quadruple the amount of water it pumps from wells and surface waters to expand its quarrying operation. Some worry it might lead to out-of-state water sales.
The Chauncey among five properties affected by foreclosure
In this piece — part of a series from The Gazette and the Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk — a look at how love of birds, whether for sport or food, has fueled the push to restore Minnesota wetlands that were once drained.
The outstanding questions and the complexity involved of trying to change Iowa’s convoluted property tax system — with just weeks left in the session — has prompted many to question what, if anything, lawmakers will do on the topic this year.
Also in the Capitol Notebook: The state opens its annual application period for taxpayer-funded private school tuition assistance scholarships
Family members of Kenyauta Vesey-Keith, who was murdered in 2023 by Denzel Wilson, gathered in a courtroom Friday with homemade signs to support Vesey-Keith’s mother and sister, who spoke during Wilson’s sentencing. Wilson was sentenced to life in prison.
In this piece — part of a series from The Gazette and the Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk — a look at what’s next for America’s disappearing wetlands, and how the battle to save remaining wetlands will fall to states, which don’t protect them equally.
In this piece — part of a series from The Gazette and the Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk — a look at a lawsuit that targets the 40-year-old “Swampbuster” law that aims to prevent farmers from destroying wetlands.
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