ST. PAUL, Minnesota, Sept. 7 -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-St. Paul District issued the following news release: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, awarded a $2.5 million contract to Dubuque Barge and Fleeting Service Company doing business as Newt Marine Service out of Dubuque, Iowa, to make repairs to the upper guidewall at Lock and Dam 2, near Hastings, Minnesota. Guidewalls are long extensions of the lock walls, in either the upstream or downstream direction, that ar  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 6 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release: * * * Funded by President Biden's Investing in America Agenda, EPA announces 34 selected tribal and territory applications through the competitive Climate Pollution Reduction Grants program * * * LENEXA, KANSAS (SEPT. 5, 2024) - Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that the Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska has been selected to receive $13,196,915 in Climate Pollution Redu  more

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, Sept. 7 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Iowa issued the following news release on Sept. 5, 2024: Kelli Biller, 39, from Sheldon, Iowa, was sentenced on September 4, 2024, to over 9 years in federal prison. On April 24, 2024, Biller pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and fentanyl. At the plea and sentencing hearings, evidence showed that from about January 2022 through November 2023, Biller was involved in a c  more