Following the summer sale of the Marion airport runway to a private company, private and public stakeholders are turning their focus to what’s next for the airport and the land surrounding it.
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Following the summer sale of the Marion airport runway to a private company, private and public stakeholders are turning their focus to what’s next for the airport and the land surrounding it.
The Frank Lloyd Wright-designed house at Cedar Rock State Park in Quasqueton will undergo some repairs and restoration thanks to a grant provided by the Iowa Historical Resource Development Program.
The GOP field grows in Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District. State Rep. Shannon Lundgren announced her bid in the race for Ashley Hinson’s open U.S. House seat in 2026. The Peosta Republican and small-business owner pledged to fight alongside President Donald Trump.
Theodore Stark & Co. built the Churchill Drug Co. Building in Cedar Rapids in 1925, and 100 years later, both the building and the general contractor are still standing.
The University of Iowa, for the first time since being included in the U.S. News & World Report’s annual best college rankings in 2004, has fallen out of the top 100 universities nationally, dropping four spots from No. 98 last year to No. 102.
Dakota Van Patten took 200 selfies of himself wearing Melody Hoffman’s glasses after she was killed Feb. 18, 2024. An investigator found the photos on his cellphone during the investigation.
Iowa Republican U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson on Monday said she supports the Trump administration’s move to terminate an annual federal report tracking food insecurity among Americans.
Actor Kate Mulgrew, a Dubuque native, says Lindsay James has the “fire in the belly” to flip Iowa’s 2nd District. The two toured Feed Iowa First in Marion on Monday to talk farming, hunger and the Farm Bill.
Dozens of metrics are used to determine drought, which can make it complicated to measure and track. The new government dashboard makes it easier to track drought across the Mississippi River Basin.
An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.3 rocked the San Francisco Bay Area early Monday, waking up many people, with more 24,000 saying they felt it, according to the United States Geological Survey.
Construction crews this week will transition to the next phase of the 42nd Street NE improvement project, and motorists should expect some disruptions.
Kelly Garcia was the agency’s director through the COVID-19 pandemic, its consolidation into the Iowa Department of Health and Human Services, and a redesign of the state’s mental and behavioral health care system.
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