Agency News

The state is beginning a new budget year with conflicting views about the fiscal year that just ended.

Iowa City is working on a long-term vision for the South Gilbert Street corridor that includes major commercial redevelopment.

We wish more states redrew their legislative boundaries using the same non-political process that Iowa uses every decade.

Warren County leaders expect to receive more than $700,000 in state and federal funds this summer for road repairs, an energy conservation project and renovation of an abandoned building on the Indianola town square.

University of Iowa officials are reviewing its methods for disposing ash from burnt coal in anticipation of increased federal and state regulations.

Virtually every state in the country is grappling with budget shortfalls. Billions of federal economic-stimulus dollars have helped them avoid some cuts to health care, education and other vital services.

Washington, D.C. - Plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions have been sold to farm groups as a potential cash cow for growers, but new government estimates suggest farmers would make a lot less money than previously believed.

I have yet to meet anyone who doesn't enjoy a quilt at some point during our four seasons in southeast Iowa.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has given preliminary approval to a flood buyout application that includes 61 properties in Mason City damaged in last year's floods.

The Iowa Department of Elder Affairs and Iowa Legal Aid's Legal Hotline for Older Iowans will be sponsoring an Elder Law Issues Seminar in June.

Tons of tires still lay scattered along Cemetery Road in Wapello County, though county officials plan to have them cleared this summer.

A body was recovered in a lake east of Ottumwa Sunday morning, according to the Wapello County Sheriff's Office.

Warren County Zoning Director Bob Folkestad learned a lesson or two about flooding before he was briefed on floodplains, or floodplain management, or levies and dams, and before he was named the only county representative to a new state team to map the state's flood areas.

The Wapello County Board of Supervisors held a short meeting Tuesday night to make amendments to the fiscal year 2008-2009 budget.

A former employee of the Ottumwa Waterworks has filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against the agency and a former manager.

Iowa's leading business tax resource says the state legislature could be doing more for Siouxland businesses.

It's been only a few days since the Iowa Legislature adjourned. The last thing people probably want to think about is next year's state budget.

Is there ever a cuter photo than little 7-year-old Emily Clark holding an itsy-bitsy mushroom in her hand? Her mom found the micro mushroom in their Ottumwa yard.

The Johnson County Multi-Agency Drug Task Force arrested three roommates Monday night after finding drugs and guns in their apartment.

While the Cedar Rapids Public Library , IA, has been successful in getting Federal Emergency Management Agency funding to replace its flood-damaged main library, the library, like those in the Gulf Coast that endured recent disasters, has found FEMA obdurate in its resistance to funding interim library service, and thus has begun layoffs.