Motorcycle riders from across the United States were in Anamosa Sunday for the 75th annual hill climb competition
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Motorcycle riders from across the United States were in Anamosa Sunday for the 75th annual hill climb competition
Two-thirds of Iowa’s state park beaches faced “swimming not recommended” advisories at least once this summer, with heavy rains fueling higher bacteria levels that pushed advisories to their highest rate in a decade, according to state monitoring officials and data.
For weeks and months last fall, according to emails obtained by The Gazette through an open records request, University of Iowa administrators, staff, committee and community members discussed a range of Macbride Nature Recreation Area issues.
Cedar Rapids city staff are in the process of preparing a “strategic parking plan” to identify and address issues in the downtown area.
Iowa State University’s Iowa Mosquito Surveillance Program has been running since the 1960s, but only a handful of counties have their own surveillance programs in place to monitor insect populations and test for West Nile virus.
Iowa students are beginning their second school year under a new Iowa law that defines chronic absenteeism as missing 10 percent of days in a grading period. During the first year of the law, the majority of charges for truancy were dismissed in Linn and Johnson counties as families made an effort to improve their child’s school attendance.
Fred Newell was a young, single father when he arrived at the University of Iowa in 2006. He took his son to every class, and would have dropped out if not for the support he received from a professor. As executive director of the nonprofit Dream City, he’s helping provide that support -- and so much more -- for others.
The tour runs through Sept. 30 and features 45 bookstores across the state.
Eight years, three states, and two jobs after NASA’s 2017 launch of its Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer, or NICER, telescope toward the International Space Station, a UI graduate research assistant has won a NASA award to design and prototype a more compact, lightweight version of the NICER.
Friday evening — just days after she entered the race for Iowa’s U.S. Senate seat — Iowa U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson received the endorsement of President Donald Trump.
Against the background of a dismal federal jobs report, two Iowa business group leaders on Friday said the state’s employers remain optimistic about the economy here, although they also warned against the impact of ongoing uncertainty in federal trade policy.
State and tribal law enforcement officers will be able to cross jurisdictional boundaries while pursuing fleeing suspects under a new legal agreement between the Iowa Attorney General’s Office and the Meskwaki Nation.
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