The number of children receiving food stamps remains higher than it was before the start of the Great Recession in 2007, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's annual Families and Living Arrangements table package released today.The rate of children living with married parents who receive food ...
No cases of Ebola have been identified in Iowa; IDPH stresses the likelihood of an Ebola case in Iowa is extremely lowThe Iowa Department of Public Health (IDPH) today announced it is collaborating with the Iowa State Hygienic Lab (SHL), three EMS providers and three Iowa hospitals for testing, ...
The Iowa Department of Public Health (IDPH) urges all Iowans over 6 months of age to receive their yearly seasonal influenza vaccine. Surveillance by IDPH influenza sentinel sites and confirmatory testing by the State Hygienic Laboratory (SHL) shows the flu is circulating in Iowa, and appears ...
(DES MOINES) Gov. Terry Branstad has ordered all flags in Iowa be flown at half-staff from 5 p.m. Friday, December 5, 2014, - 8 a.m. Monday, December 8, 2014, in honor of Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day weekend.Flags will be at half-staff on the State Capitol Building and on flag displays in the ...
At its Dec. 3 meeting, theIowa Board of Regents voted unanimously to freeze tuition rates for 2015-2016 for resident undergraduate students. With this vote, the Board will implement a tuition freeze for undergraduate resident students for a third consecutive year. "We will continue to ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - "I Want To Be Recycled" is the theme of Keep America Beautiful's 2014 America Recycles Day (ARD), which takes place annually on and around Nov. 15 throughout the country. America Recycles Day, in its 17th year, educates people about the importance of recycling to our economy ...
WASHINGTON Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today (Monday, Oct. 20, 2014) expressed alarm at the findings of a new report, issued at his request, documenting that tens of thousands of federal employees were on paid leave for at least one month and several hundred employees for nine months to three ...
Des Moines, IOWA The Iowa Department of Public Safety's Division of Criminal Investigation will be holding a news conference on Thursday to release new details in the mystery lottery ticket from December 2010.Who: Assistant Director, DCI, Dave JobesWhere: Iowa Department of ...
Dr. Samir Koirala, an epidemiologist working with the Iowa Department of Public Health (IDPH), who recently returned from assisting CDC Ebola Outbreak efforts in Sierra Leone shared his experiences today during a press conference in Des Moines. Dr. Koirala was in Sierra Leone for 25 days, based ...
Waukon, IOWA -- A 9 year old boy that went missing this morning in Waukon has been found safe and unharmed.Lance Kirk Palmer, DOB 9-8-2005, was last seen this morning around 7:15 on a gravel road, not far from his residence.The Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation, Iowa State Patrol and ...