Mayors from 10 states along the Mississippi River flew to Washington, D.C. earlier this month to lobby for funding to protect and restore one of the world’s most important working rivers.
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Mayors from 10 states along the Mississippi River flew to Washington, D.C. earlier this month to lobby for funding to protect and restore one of the world’s most important working rivers.
Also, the public is invited to comment on updates to Johnson County’s comprehensive plan
A Cedar Rapids physician accused of sexually exploiting a patient has been granted probation and will not be placed on the state’s sex-offender registry.
Landfills in two Minnesota counties are experimenting with methods of containing “forever chemicals” in an effort to keep them out of groundwater and lakes.
When officers entered the residence, they encountered a male subject “armed with two knives that ran at the officers,” a news release from the Fort Dodge Police Department states.
A DNR fisheries biologist who evaluated sections of about 50 river miles over the course of four days following the southwest Iowa fertilizer spill, reported that he found no living fish. He also noted there were numerous dead frogs, snakes, mussels and earthworms.
Women across income levels and generations are more likely to give — and give more, says local author and retired chief executive officer of the United Way of East Central Iowa Lois Buntz.
Officials in Johnson County are working on a plan to build a new county jail, after a structural conditions assessment last year found the current facility to be lacking.
Many of these beloved public spaces aren’t accessible to people with disabilities. In some cases, it’s because the parks were built decades before federal accessibility standards were enacted. But even some new state park features are not fully accessible, a former state official said.
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