For the first time in nearly seven years, Iowa’s Board of Regents has a new president in Sherry Bates -- a social worker who’s been on the board for nearly a decade.
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For the first time in nearly seven years, Iowa’s Board of Regents has a new president in Sherry Bates -- a social worker who’s been on the board for nearly a decade.
The district has no immediate plans to build on the almost 19-acres of property southwest of Iowa City that could be a future school site.
An 11-year-old from Wheatland was killed Tuesday in a utility terrain vehicle crash in Wheatland, according to a crash report from the Iowa State Patrol.
A woman was killed Tuesday in a house fire in rural Cedar County, according to a news release from the Cedar County Sheriff’s Office.
School officials make recommendations on how to trim $7.5 million in expenses from the budget over the next two years
Central Furniture Rescue, a Cedar Rapids based non-profit, will host a $5 chair and bar stool sale in April, called a CHAIR-ity parking lot sale, in an attempt to turn an excess of donated chairs into other needed furniture.
A ribbon cutting Tuesday marked the anticipated reopening of not just a new building, but a new vision for the African American Museum of Iowa as it expands its statewide presence.
Also, Iowa House passes ban on police traffic stop quotas.
In awarding city financial incentives to an unnamed company to build a $576 million data center in the Big Cedar Industrial Center, members of the Cedar Rapids City Council lauded the project -- the city’s largest ever -- as a “historic” milestone for Cedar Rapids.
The payment came under the federal American Rescue Plan Act and was supposed to be distributed by Dubuque County to Dyersville.
A group of parents of students with disabilities lacks legal standing to challenge a state law prohibiting mask mandates at public schools, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.
Iowa libraries and museums warn of financial losses as a result of property tax changes signed into law last year.
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