An Iowa Department of Transportation program aimed at clearing large crashes quickly to prevent traffic from backing up was recently expanded to the Des Moines area after proving successful around Iowa City.
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An Iowa Department of Transportation program aimed at clearing large crashes quickly to prevent traffic from backing up was recently expanded to the Des Moines area after proving successful around Iowa City.
Major medical groups in the United States -- including the American Medical Association, American Psychological Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics — say gender-affirming care is safe and encourage it as a treatment for gender dysphoria, which is when people feel like they are a different gender than their birth gender.
The Marion City Council on Thursday appointed Gage Miskimen, a former reporter at The Gazette, to fill the vacancy left on city council when Colette Atkins, who had been on the council since 2018, resigned at the end of March.
Justices will be asked to clear way for ‘fetal heartbeat’ bill
Conservative commentator Matt Walsh – as part of his nationwide “What is a Woman” documentary tour – is planning a visit to the University of Iowa this month, inciting some complaints, concerns and an online petition to shut down his lecture.
Iowa U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley sat down in Cedar Rapids with law enforcement and a retail leader to discuss how retail theft is enabling the illicit drug trade.
River communities could enter flood action stages as soon as this weekend, cresting toward the end of April and beginning of May.
A state board on Thursday awarded a combined $1.3 million toward two CEdar Rapids projects: one that will revitalize Cedar Lake through the grassroots ConnectCR initiative and the other that will renovate the African American Museum of Iowa.
In March 2022, a Johnson County jury awarded more than $97.4 million to the family of a boy who sustained serious brain damage during his birth at an Iowa City hospital. The award, believed to be the largest medical malpractice judgment in Iowa history, was later reduced to $75.6 million.
A commercial building in Ely was destroyed in a fire Wednesday night, but no injuries were reported, according to a news release from the Linn County Sheriff’s Office.
The bills are part of House Democrats’ “People Over Politics” legislative agenda they proposed at the beginning of the legislative session.
Damontie Haggstrom-Wells, 20, already in prison on a burglary conviction, now faces a murder charge in the May 2020 fatal shooting of Daniel Spangler.
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