Also, Iowa Republican legislative leaders set spending targets for the next state budget
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Also, Iowa Republican legislative leaders set spending targets for the next state budget
House and Senate versions vary in coverage
A bill in the Iowa Legislature would expand the state’s “dram shop” laws, which impose civil liability for selling alcohol to a visibly intoxicated or underage persons, to apply to consumable hemp products.
For the first time in 27 years, the U.S. government is changing how it categorizes people by race and ethnicity, an effort that federal officials believe will more accurately count residents who identify as Hispanic and of Middle Eastern and North African heritage.
It is the biggest fish kill in Iowa in at least a decade and the fifth-largest on record, according to state data.
Testimony for Shane Teslik, charged with voluntary manslaughter and disorderly conduct in the fatal stabbing of Devonna Walker, started Wednesday in Linn County.
The city approved nearly $2 million in settlement agreements with city staff without a public vote in 2023.
School board votes on cost-savings measures in an effort to preserve the quality of student education, staff.
In Cedar Rapids’ delayed quest to establish “quiet zones” to reduce the number of train horns sounding throughout downtown and NewBo, city staff anticipate the first phase will be complete within approximately the next year. Some City Council members were skeptical of the completion.
State auditor condemns AG for using unfinished audit to justify halting payments
Gov. Kim Reynolds calls changes to Iowa’s area education agencies ‘meaningful and necessary reform’
An equipment failure at the city’s wastewater plant lift station caused the sewage to flow into a storm drain leading to the river, the Iowa DNR reported.
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