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The National Park Service is giving entrepreneurs the opportunity to open private businesses on public land with three historical houses up for lease at the Herbert Hoover National Historic Site in West Branch. The service has asked for requests for expression of interest from businesses for “adaptive uses” of the three houses.

IOWA CITY — Although University of Iowa Athletics has reversed its decision to eliminate women’s swimming and diving after this season — following a court injunction requiring it do so — the UI hasn’t d

After years of planning, research and testing, conservation officers and park rangers with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources have been outfitted with a body-worn camera and trained how to use it.

CEDAR RAPIDS — Linn County announced Monday that it is seeking public input on climate change and action.A survey, available on the county website, is designed to understand how residents perceive climate change and how climate disasters such as the August derecho affect residents, according to a news release.

IOWA CITY — Growing up the son of a professor in post-World War II Poland, Witold Krajewski never imagined he’d spend most of his adult life in America — let alone Iowa — leading efforts to pioneer internationally esteemed hydrologic technology aimed at quelling the devastating effects of Midwest flooding.

MARION — A large mixed-use development in east Marion, formerly known as Squaw Creek Crossing, has changed its name.The development, now known as East Town Crossing, follows efforts to remove an ethnic and sexual slur toward Native American women from names of places in Linn County.

If Orlando Barragan of Iowa City hadn’t wanted to study ballet, his parents — instructors Sarah and Eloy Barragan — would have been fine with that. He still would have grown up around dance and gained an appreciation for it, his mother said.

Dr. Andrew Jay Hankins is retired now. He lives in the Detroit area, but for four years, from 1961 to 1964, he lived in Iowa City while he attended the University of Iowa on a basketball scholarship.
Hankins grew up in north Chicago and played basketball in Waukegan, making the Illinois All-State team in 1960 and graduating 17th in his class of 520.

DES MOINES — A five-member Senate Commerce panel on Monday advanced the “foundation” language — but no funding — for Gov. Kim Reynolds’ priority $450 million broadband expansion across the state by 2025.

SERGEANT BLUFF — As he formally jumped into the race for the U.S. Senate seat Monday, Jim Carlin cited his career as a soldier, trial lawyer and state senator in which he repeatedly fought “for the underdogs of this world.”Carlin would be a decided underdog if the fellow Republican he seeks to replace, Sen. Chuck Grassley, decides to run for an eighth term.