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With the $1 million Iowa lawmakers appropriated in the last session for a new Center for Civic Education at the University of Northern Iowa, the campus has hired a founding director following a national search.

Iowa City Democrat and University of Iowa law professor Christina Bohannan hopes the third time will be the charm, as she runs again to unseat Republican U.S. Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks in Iowa's 1st District.

The reason poison hemlock is becoming more prevalent in Eastern Iowa may be the result of a number of factors, but experts say tree loss as a result of the 2020 derecho likely contributed.

Residents of Lake Ridge Estates, a mobile home park just south of Iowa City, last week found a 24-pack of bottled water and a notice at their front doors. “Lake Ridge Inc. has high levels of manganese. DO NOT GIVE TAP WATER TO INFANTS UNDER 6 MONTHS OLD OR USE IT TO MAKE INFANT FORMULA.”

A Marion man, who was convicted of vehicular homicide in the death of a Coggon mother and also caused permanent injuries to her toddler in 2013, asked a judge Monday to dismiss a new vehicular homicide charge filed after the child died last year.

A year after the University of Iowa aired plans for a multi-stage expansion and modernization of its Tippie College of Business, the Henry B. Tippie family has committed another $20 million toward a campaign to make the project happen.

A list of prominent state and federal lawmakers, community leaders and abortion rights advocates recovered from the fake police vehicle used in the targeted shooting Saturday that killed a Minnesota Democratic lawmaker and left another wounded included individuals in Iowa, according to law enforcement and state legislative leaders.

During the search, police said they confirmed someone was in the woods and searched for hours, using a helicopter and officers on foot, until they found Boelter. He gave himself up to police, crawling out to officers in the woods before he was handcuffed and taken into custody in a field, authorities said.