The catch — the largest of its kind to date in Wisconsin and Minnesota — was made possible by tagging previously caught fish and throwing them back. Those fish were tracked to find and capture 323 silver, grass and bighead carp.
The Rental Energy Improvement Program will fund energy-efficiency upgrades at low-income rental properties.
Also, Cedar Rapids City Council members Scott Olson, Ashley Vanorny honored
Saying ‘chaos follows’ Trump, Haley campaigns in Iowa while hoping to catch Trump in GOP presidential primary polls
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Move after meals, and remove guilt and shame over indulgences
While many matches last just a few formative years, Jason Powers’s and Steve Warner’s relationship has endured through good times — Warner was a groomsman in Powers’s 1999 wedding — and hard times — Powers waited in the hospital while Warner had open-heart surgery in 2018.
Mitch Gross ends 16 years on the Coralville City Council later this month.
The Cedar Rapids Fire Department is planning over the next several months to make revisions to its current strategic plan, which was implemented in July 2022 and was meant to last through fiscal year 2027.
With a rise in pet ownership has come a spike in pet health care, along with growth across the pet insurance industry, all driving a bump in demand for more advanced pet medicine — including cancer care, like the novel and expanding veterinary oncology services offered at Iowa State University.
It’s not easy, even with the help of federal grants
Cameras that can read license plates and automatically run them through police databases are becoming more common across the U.S., and raising concerns about privacy. They’ve started to pop up in Iowa in the recent years. The University of Iowa installed 28 cameras this year, and Marshalltown plans to add 32 in the near future.
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