GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., /Christian Newswire/ -- Cyclists are signing up for the ride of their lives next summer, seeking to end the cycle of poverty in North America and around the world.The Sea to Sea 2013 Bike Tour is a nine-week, 3,900-mile cycling trek across North America designed to raise ...
AMES, Iowa Kevin Lauver, who was an Iowa State University freshman in 1977, shares something in common with his son, Jacob, who is a freshman in agricultural studies at Iowa State this fall.Both were members of freshmen classes that broke existing enrollment records in Iowa State's College of ...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Electrical problems in the home cause hundreds of deaths and thousands of injuries each year, not to mention roughly a billion dollars in fire property loss. The Safe Electricity program encourages you to observe Fire Prevention Week, October 7-13, by learning how to keep ...
DES MOINES Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey t commented on the Iowa Crops and Weather report released by the USDA National Agricultural Statistical Service. The report is released weekly from April through October."Farmers a quickly wrapping up the 2012 harvest and moving on to fall ...
CEDAR RAPIDS - Interstate Power and Light Co. (IPL), an Alliant Energy Company, encourages customers and other interested parties to attend an informational meeting on the proposed Marshalltown Generating Station on October 4, 2012 in Marshalltown, Iowa.The company is proposing to construct, ...
DES MOINES The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship and Iowa Department of Public Health today reminded Iowans that mosquitoes remain active until hard freeze occurs and can carry West Nile virus.Surveillance has shown a larger number of horses have been infected with West Nile ...
Don't hesitate vaccinate!The Iowa Department of Public Health (IDPH) joins national health officials in urging all Iowans, age 6 months and older, to receive a flu vaccine. Influenza is not a 'reportable disease' in Iowa, which means doctors are not required to notify IDPH each time a patient ...
DES MOINES, IOWA Iowa's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate increased to 5.5 percent in August from 5.3 percent in July, but was substantially lower than the year ago rate of 6.0 percent. The U.S. unemployment rate for August fell to 8.1 percent from 8.3 percent in July largely due to the ...
AMES- The draft State Public Participation Process for Transportation Planning document is available for public review and comment. The Iowa Department of Transportation developed this public participation process to document the ways in which Iowans have the opportunity to help identify ...
Iowa farmers, who are in the fields early this year because of an oppressive drought, are seeing yields 'all over the board' as they bring in the 2012 crop, say Iowa Farm Bureau Federation (IFBF) information aggregators, agronomists and research experts."Every year, we work with Iowa farmers in ...