Following years of planning, fundraising challenges, negotiations, discord, and compromise, Iowa State University is seeking Board of Regents approval to enter into a “creative” agreement with the City of Ames to help finance a new $200 million CyTown development and maintain four ISU buildings central to its arts and entertainment core.
The Linn County Public Health Department has been expanding its systems for monitoring and reporting on air quality across the county, including adding an additional location for its portable air quality monitors.
The suspect in quadruple murder is due now back in court to face upgraded charges.
The goal is to have a Democrat facing off against a Republican in almost every election in the state, Democrats said during a fundraising dinner Saturday in Davenport. While the primary has passed, parties can still nominate candidates by convention.
Crews earlier this spring broke ground on the approximately $8.35 million project to transform Marion’s City Square with a new Central Plaza. What’s happened so far?
West High School junior Layan Ahmed will lead the organization’s national executive council for the next year.
The 340B program lets eligible hospitals and clinics buy drugs at a discount and then bill insurance companies, Medicare, or Medicaid at market rates. Hospitals get to keep the money they make from the difference. But emergency hospitals — a designation created to help struggling small hospitals — are not eligible for 340B discounts.
Faced with the proliferation of hemp-derived THC, Iowa lawmakers passed new restrictions on the sale of consumable hemp products. In doing so, they limit parents who give their child CBD — for some, the only seizure drug that works.
Recap of news from across the state
School’s out for summer for many of Iowa’s college and university students, but that doesn’t mean work has stopped across the sprawling campuses — where hard hats have replaced commencement caps and skid loaders have taken the place of scooters.
Whether they were the result of weeks of engineering, or held together with “a stick of gum and some cardboard,” every boat in the Freedom Festival’s Cardboard Boat Regatta faced the same challenge on Saturday: travel out and around a buoy in Manhattan Park’s Robbins Lake without sinking.
A federal bankruptcy judge on Friday afternoon confirmed a Chapter 11 plan of liquidation for the former Mercy Iowa City hospital, despite push back from its former managing partner MercyOne — which now, under the plan, remains exposed to future lawsuits.
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