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When backers of a casino in Cedar Rapids unveiled its latest push to win a state license in 2022, the …
Iowa has been trying for decades to plug Iowa’s brain drain, shorthand for the flow of educated young people leaving …
Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird is preparing to investigate the University of Iowa for failing to destroy all remnants of …
Alliant Energy wants to build a natural gas-fired power plant on the south side of Fairfax to serve large new …
Top Iowa Republican leaders have mobilized to defend bacon. What is the threat to bacon? It’s Proposition 12, a measure …
A majority of Cedar Rapids City Council members voted this week to eliminate the city’s citizen police review board. The …
Just before passing President Donald Trump’s 2025 big, beautiful tax and budget reconciliation bill, Republicans threw a bone to Senators, …
Will Donald Trump pull back his mass deportation drive to spare Iowa farmers and agribusinesses who need migrants to fill …
Drive across Iowa’s landscape, and you’ll likely see a lot of corn and soybean fields. In between are lakes, rivers, …
Thanks in large part to nitrate fertilizer pollution from farming operations in Iowa, the state’s waterways, which are public resources, …
While campaigning for president, Donald Trump proposed mass deportations of undocumented immigrants, but his administration would focus on immigrants with …
Iowa’s mental health system is changing again. Up until 2013, Iowa had county-by-county mental health management paid for with a …
The Iowa outbreak, although not large, serves as a timely reminder of the importance of vaccinating children against infectious diseases.
The U.S. House’s version of the Big, Beautiful Bill are slashes Medicaid funding. Now, the Senate is stepping up to …
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