A White House official says President Trump has ordered the EPA to set the wheels in motion for the year-round sale of gasoline blended with 15 percent ethanol. Currently, gasoline with 10 percent ethanol may be sold at any time of the year in the United States. The oil industry has fought to preserve rules […]Powered by WPeMatico
Linn County Auditor Joel Miller says his office is still receiving sample ballots back from voters who mistook them for real ones. Some 300 voters have mailed in the documents with their candidates marked off. The ballots are watermarked with the word “sample” and are meant to inform voters on their choices. “Lots of people […]Powered by WPeMatico
Ground is being broken this afternoon on what will be the new Psychological and Brain Sciences building at the University of Iowa. Professor and department chair Mark Blumberg says the six-floor, $33 million project will take shape where Seashore Hall once stood, located just east of Van Allen Hall. “The basement is going to have […]Powered by WPeMatico
Advocates of corn-based ethanol expect President Donald Trump to make a major announcement about the fuel additive tomorrow. “This is something we’ve literally been working on for seven years. If all goes as we think it will, this is going to be a very good day,” Monte Shaw, executive director of the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association, […]Powered by WPeMatico
Dentists and other volunteers provided free dental care to more than 900 people in the two-day annual Mission of Mercy clinic Friday and Saturday in Sioux City. More than 100 student dentists and dental hygienists from University of Iowa, Creighton, University of Nebraska, Morningside College, Iowa Western Community College, Kirkwood, and Western Iowa Tech were […]Powered by WPeMatico
Class 4A 1. WDM Valley (7-0) LW #1 vs #10 Ames 2. Cedar Falls (7-0) LW #2 vs Dubuque Senior 3. Ankeny Centennial (7-0) LW #3 @ DSM Roosevelt 4. Bettendorf (6-1) LW #4 @ Davenport West 5. Iowa City West (6-1) LW #5 vs Muscatine 6. Dowling Catholic (5-2) LW #6 @ DSM Hoover […]Powered by WPeMatico
A group of Democrats with banners, American flags and umbrellas gathered in downtown Des Moines and marched to the Polk County Courthouse to vote this morning, the first day “early” voting is allowed in the state. Fred Hubbell, the Democratic candidate for governor, climbed on a ledge on the side of a building and addressed […]Powered by WPeMatico
One person died and several were hurt, in a housefire Sunday in the central Iowa town of Huxley. Three residents of the house suffered from smoke inhalation and one died from it. That was 47-year-old Brett Van Ersvelde. He and 44-year-old Julie McClain were trying to get their 17-year-old son from his bedroom when first […]Powered by WPeMatico
A northeast Iowa man was killed in a two-vehicle weekend crash in southeastern Minnesota. The Minnesota State Patrol says an SUV went out of control and onto the shoulder on Highway 43 near Rushford on Sunday and slid sideways into the path of a car. That car was driven by 64-year-old Richard Engelhart of Cresco […]Powered by WPeMatico
