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Iowa Supreme Court Hears Arguments Over Water Quality In Raccoon River
Environmental groups that want the state to regulate farm pollution running into waterways took their arguments to the Iowa Supreme Court.
Environmental groups that want the state to regulate farm pollution running into waterways took their arguments to the Iowa Supreme Court.
The Des Moines airport is likely to end the year with less than half the usual number of passengers due to COVID-19.
Iowa’s daily death totals from COVID-19 over the past two weeks have jumped 78%, the New York Times reported Monday.
Much of western Iowa remains abnormally dry or in drought, the U.S. Drought Monitor reports.
Gov. Kim Reynolds announced Monday she will return $21 million in federal pandemic aid to the state’s coronavirus relief fund.
Doctors, nurses, hospital executives and custodial staff were among the first people in Iowa on Monday to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.
In perhaps another indication of how 2020 has been a year most people want to forget, Iowans spent a record amount of money on liquor.
The Supreme Court on Friday turned aside a Texas lawsuit that sought to derail the presidential election results.
Gov. Kim Reynolds said Thursday that Iowa didn’t have the opportunity to join a lawsuit that seeks to delay certification of the election.
An Iowa nurse who failed to attempt CPR on a care-facility resident who subsequently died has surrendered her license to the state.
The number of new COVID-19 cases in Iowa and related hospitalizations continue to fall, but the state lost nearly 100 more residents.
With COVID-19 outbreaks growing in Iowa’s nursing homes, state inspectors report finding no infection-control violations.
In an overwhelming 343-67 vote, House members backed the stopgap, which would extend fiscal 2021 funding until Dec. 18.
Biden also tapped McDonough, 51, who served as chief of staff to former President Barack Obama, to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Practice runs for distributing COVID-19 vaccines to Louisiana hospitals.
Buoyed by falling unemployment and still-healthy state reserves, the leaders are willing to discuss adding to the 2018 tax cuts.
Hogg said the biofuels industry has over the years reduced its environmental impact.
Nursing homes — which house Iowa’s most vulnerable citizens — continue to see a rapid spread of the virus.
Media reports on Tuesday night said President-elect Joe Biden will nominate U.S. Rep. Marcia Fudge of Ohio.
At least 35 more Iowans died of COVID-19 on Sunday, with 1,304 additional infections reported by the state.