City of Cedar Rapids officials are exploring options to reduce the cost of its $348.3 million project to improve the Water Pollution Control Facility after awarding a construction contract exceeding initial cost estimates by about $70 million. Workforce constraints mostly fueled bids coming in higher than anticipated.
A Winneshiek County complaint, made public Tuesday, sheds a little more light on a 2017 homicide of a teen in Decorah, but doesn’t explain how a Georgia man killed her or if authorities have recovered a body. The suspect, who lived near Decorah in 2017, was charged with second-degree murder.
Also, the Iowa DOT dedicated $9.3 million in state and federal funds to the state’s Aviation Program
The district anticipates hiring an architect this fall and opening the schools to students in August 2027. The new schools would have capacity for 600 students each.
At a time of growing worker needs across the agriculture industry and strong sustained interest among agriculture students, Kirkwood Community College last week secured itself more educational cropland with a $1.4 million purchase of 80 nearby acres.
Midwestern states are spending millions every year to prevent Asian carp from invading rivers and lakes, but the fish have established a home in the Mississippi River basin, and experts say they are here to stay. One way to get the silver carp population under control seems relatively simple — eat the carp.
Summit Carbon Solutions cannot negotiate yet for easements for its planned pipeline expansion but has obtained some from another company.
‘It’s never as bad as it seems,’ longtime Polk principal would tell kids
A Georgia man was charged Monday in a homicide of a 15-year-old girl who went missing from his rural Winneshiek farm in 2017.
The State Objection Panel will meet Aug. 28 to determine whether three Libertarian candidates for U.S. House in Iowa should remain on the ballot.
The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse library has amassed an informal holding place for photos, maps, journals and field notes telling the story of the upper Mississippi River and the Driftless region that surrounds it, including northeast Iowa.
Authorities have not announced any arrest in the killings of the Omaha men.
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