The Iowa Treasurer’s Office, which returned the Purple Heart to the family of Garold Hayes, now seeks Iowans’ help reconnecting another formerly stored Purple Heart with the family of a deceased Iowa veteran
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The Iowa Treasurer’s Office, which returned the Purple Heart to the family of Garold Hayes, now seeks Iowans’ help reconnecting another formerly stored Purple Heart with the family of a deceased Iowa veteran
As legislators this week continue their consideration of a group of bills aimed at reshaping higher education in Iowa -- taking aim at diversity, equity, and inclusion programming, curricular offerings, and accrediting agencies -- one lawmaker on Wednesday called on Iowa’s community colleges to consider offering bachelor’s degrees.
Two men have been arrested in relation to an assault in the Iowa City Ped Mall in December, and police are seeking the public’s help to identify another person of interest in the case, according to a news release from the Iowa City Police Department.
Democrats Tuesday flipped seat in the Iowa Senate in a special election held to replace Republican Sen. Chris Cournoyer, who was named as Iowa's lieutenant governor, but Democrats still will be far outnumbered in the chamber.
The Department of Public Safety proposal comes more than a year after fatal shooting at Perry schools.
Remaining candidates address questions about how they would approach state, federal policies that affect Iowa City residents.
Also, Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds’ proposal to provide paid family leave to state workers got its first legislative approval
Gov. Kim Reynolds, during a visit Tuesday to Alburnett schools, said school districts losing students because of a recent law on school choice have the responsibility to make families choose to stay in the district -- rather than asking the state government to help address the decline.
CEDAR RAPIDS — A Cedar Rapids teen, after turning down two previous plea agreements, accepted one Tuesday, admitting he planned with three other teens to kill 16-year-old Michael Alexander McCune in 2023.
In responding to a House proposal that would require the University of Iowa to establish a new “School of Intellectual Freedom,” a UI lobbyist on Tuesday announced campus plans to create a new “Center for Civic Dialogue and Leadership.”
For her decades of space flight and research with NASA and now Axiom space, Iowa native and prolific astronaut Peggy Whitson will be inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame, the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation announced Tuesday.
The alert comes after nine OHV/ATVs broke through ice on Iowa lakes last weekend.
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