The state Flood Mitigation Board has awarded millions of dollars for flood protection projects in Cedar Rapids, Dubuque and other Iowa cities. The awards were announced on Wednesday. The Iowa Legislature created the board to let cities use a portion …
Unmanned “speed cameras” that enforce local speed limits have become a common roadside feature across the United States, but few places have embraced the devices with the zeal of Iowa. Across the state, cities big and small have installed the …
The parents of an Iowa man killed in a Mississippi River boating crash filed the first of what could be several civil lawsuits against the boat operators. The Burlington Hawk Eye reported Friday that Des Moines attorney Alfredo Parrish filed …
Sioux City and Sunnybrook Community Church have settled with the owners of five homes for damage caused by a water line break two years ago. The Sioux City Journal says the City Council on Monday approved the agreement. The Iowa …
Data show that the number of accidents at Clive, Iowa, intersections monitored by red-light cameras was twice as high in 2012 as the number four years earlier. The Des Moines Register says over the same period, the number of accidents …
The Iowa Department of Public Safety has decided it will keep secret information about police checks on Gov. Terry Branstad’s license plate. The department said last month it would search for and release information showing how many times the plate …
An outbreak of stomach illnesses in Iowa and Nebraska has been linked to salad mix served at local Olive Garden and Red Lobster restaurants and supplied by a Mexican farm. The outbreak of cyclospora infections has sickened more than 400 …
A former Marshalltown, Iowa, insurance agent has been indicted on federal mail fraud charges after being accused of defrauding customers for nearly a decade. The Marshalltown Times-Republican reports that 65-year-old William Arthur Thiede was charged with five counts of mail …
The number of people reporting a foodborne intestinal illness believed to have come from a contaminated vegetable is now at 134 in Iowa and Nebraska as new cases continue to surface. Iowa has reported 81 cases of cyclosporiasis spread across …
Iowa authorities introduced a K-9 trained to be an accelerant detection dog for arson cases. The state Department of Public Safety said that Pogo met the public Wednesday morning in Des Moines. Pogo and his handler, Special Agent Jeff Shatzer, …