Watch as the 94-year old Black Hawk Bridge in Lansing, Iowa is impoded by the Iowa and Wisconsin Departments of Transportation.
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Watch as the 94-year old Black Hawk Bridge in Lansing, Iowa is impoded by the Iowa and Wisconsin Departments of Transportation.
The Linn County Conservation Board this week approved two new wetland developments on county-owned land to continue its ongoing efforts to restore and protect Iowa’s wetlands.
As Cornell College students reel from recent news of cuts to academic programs and positions, the college’s president said he understands their feelings while also knowing that Cornell, like the liberal arts education that fuels it, must evolve.
Throughout 2026, the state will highlight Iowa’s agriculture, gardening and horticulture, leading up to a massive Harvest Festival in October that will celebrate Iowa’s “integral role in feeding and fueling the world for 250 years.”
The Iowa Department of Natural Resources confirmed Thursday that Canada geese at two southern Iowa lakes tested positive for highly pathogenic avian influenza.
A man from Quebec, Canada was arrested Wednesday on charges that he placed credit card scanners on the registers at two Family Dollar Stores in Cedar Rapids, according to a press release from the Cedar Rapids Police Department.
The Johnson County Board of Supervisors voted 3-2 Thursday, against a resolution that would have affirmed the county’s commitment to upholding protections outlined in the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
The event, organized by students, served a free meal to more than 1,000 people and offered live music and visits with Santa Claus.
A Des Moines-based government and public affairs firm the Board of Regents recently hired to lobby on behalf of the University of Iowa this upcoming legislative session has resigned before its work could even start.
Iowa’s congressional delegation has introduced resolutions in the U.S. House and Senate honoring two Iowa National Guard members killed in a weekend terrorist attack in Syria.
A North Liberty man, who was convicted in Black Hawk and Johnson counties for sexual assaults and robbery, pleaded Thursday to kidnapping and robbery charges in an attempt to sexual assault a woman in Linn County in 2023.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday that could reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug and open new avenues for medical research, a major shift in federal drug policy that inches closer to what many states have done.
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