Category Archives: Headlines
AIB selling property
Nearly a fifth of the AIB College of Business campus will be sold prior to the school being taken over by the University of Iowa and the Iowa Board of Regents. The property includes three apartment bu...
Aug 05, 2015
Big pension debt under wrap, says nonprofit analysis
The state is hiding more than one-and-a-half billion dollars in pension debt, according to a non-profit research group. Truth in Accounting says it got its data from Iowa's audited Comprehensive finan...
Aug 05, 2015
Torch Morning News you can use 8-4:
Wind energy could help Iowa meet new pollution rules established by the EPA. Janet McCabe of the agency says the Clean Power Plan requires states to start cutting back on carbon pollution by 32 percen...
Aug 04, 2015
Polk City votes on bond
Polk City voters decide today in a bond referendum whether to fund an aquatic center, soccer fields and baseball diamonds. Knapp Properties is ready to donate the land in return for the city's commitm...
Aug 04, 2015
Chinese billionaire’s wife no longer faces seed theft charges
Trade secret-stealing charges against the wife of a Chinese billionaire's wife have been dismissed in a Des Moines court this week. Mo Yun, her brother and five other Chinese nationals were accused of...
Jul 30, 2015
Torch Morning News you can use 7-29:
Today is Day 2 of the bird flu summit in downtown Des Moines. Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack told poultry producers, state officials and businessmen they have a bird flu vaccine that works on chickens, and ...
Jul 29, 2015
Tax Free holiday next week
The dates for Iowa's annual tax free holiday for back to school shopping have been set...families can start shopping tax-free on August 7th and 8th...they'll get discounts on everything from school su...
Jul 29, 2015
Torch Morning News you can use 7-28:
Poultry industry officials and government researchers will gather today and tomorrow in Des Moines to discuss next steps if the bird flu virus returns this fall or next spring. The virus resulted in t...
Jul 28, 2015
Record increase in nitrate removal costs
Des Moines Water Works has spent a record amount this year trying to keep nitrates out of the city's drinking water. CEO Bill Stowe tells the Torch more than one-and-a-half million dollars has gone in...
Jul 28, 2015
Bird flu vaccine works
USDA is seeking federal funding to stockpile a bird flu vaccine it says is 100 percent effective in protecting chickens. Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack told a House Ag panel yesterday they're now testing th...
Jul 23, 2015
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