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060719 1206‘ The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says we can expect increased runoff for the Upper Missouri River Basin this year because snow is melting very slowly The forecast for the upper basin this year is now nearly 200 percent above average. The Corps’ Kevin Grode (GROE-dee) says if that level is reached, 2019 would be the second highest runoff year on record in more than 120 years. ((0606grode 0:16) While there are many comparisons to 2011, the big difference between 2019 and 2011 is that

060619 504 The Iowa Boards of Regents today decreed that In-state students at the University of Iowa and Iowa State will be paying nearly four percent more in tuition costs beginning this fall. The Board approved a proposed tuition increase for Iowa's public universities today. This action is the first in a planned five-year tuition model that was years in the making." Out-of-state students attending ISU would pay about 5-percent more, and at Iowa, they would pay about a percent more in tuition.

060619 432 Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds is back at work after a trip to the hospital today. Reynolds experienced chest pain earlier today and out of an abundance of caution went to the emergency room to seek medical care. The governor was seen by a physician. Her blood tests, chest x-rays, and electrocardiogram (EKG) test were all normal. She has been released from the hospital and is back working at the Capitol. In-state students at the University of Iowa and Iowa State will be paying nearly four

060619 404 In-state students at the University of Iowa and Iowa State will be paying nearly four percent more in tuition costs beginning this fall. The Iowa Board of Regents approved a proposed tuition increase for Iowa's public universities today. Out-of-state students attending ISU would pay about 5-percent more, and at Iowa, they would pay about a percent more in tuition. Base tuition levels at the University of Northern Iowa remained flat, to help UNI compete for students. This action is the

Iowa’s Board of Regents ---meeting in Ames today---will be setting tuition at the three state universities. Today’s vote –hiking undergraduate ….. tuition three-point-nine-percent---at the University of Iowa and Iowa State is nearly a full-percent more than Regents last November were predicting last November. But …that was contingent on state legislators appropriating 18-million dollars to the Regents. But they’re receiving six-million less. Even so…Regent Milt Dakovich…says he likes the Board’s

060519 504 A food pantry that serves more than 5,000 people a month in Sioux City is being evicted because the building it operates from has been sold. The Midtown Family Community Center houses the food pantry, a free Saturday meal, and a 4-H program. Boys and Girls Home Inc. owns the building and had allowed the community center to use the building rent-free. But the building was sold last month. the grant funding the center receives provides only food for the pantry and Saturday meal. She

060519 432 A Sioux City food pantry that serves more than 5,000 people a month is being evicted because the building it operates from has been sold. The Midtown Family Community Center houses the food pantry, a free Saturday meal, and a 4-H program. Boys and Girls Home Inc. owns the building and had allowed the community center to use the building rent-free. But the building was sold last month. Boys and Girls Home is moving its programs to a centralized campus at the site of the former Indian

060519 404 Officials say a food pantry that serves more than 5,000 people a month in Sioux City is being evicted because the building it operates from has been sold. The Midtown Family Community Center houses the food pantry, a free Saturday meal, and a 4-H program. Janet Reynolds of the Jones Street Neighborhood Coalition says the center's closure will be a "huge loss for the community." Boys and Girls Home Inc. owns the building and had allowed the community center to use the building rent

A Sioux City food pantry that serves more than 5,000 people each month is being evicted from the building where it has operated for the last 11 years. The Midtown Family Community Center, which houses the food pantry, a free Saturday meal, and the Urban 4-H program, will be forced to close due to the recent sale of its the building at 14th and Nebraska streets, said Janet Reynolds, president of the Jones Street Neighborhood Coalition. Boys and Girls Home, Inc., which had allowed the community

The Lewis and Clark Festival takes place at Lewis and Clark State Park near Onawa Iowa Friday, June 7 th through Saturday the 9 th . The event celebrates early American heritage and transports people back in time to the early 1800’s. One of the characters bringing this history back to life shared insight on the art of buck skinning with Siouxland Public Media. Richard Rose from Dunlap, Iowa is an expert in the Native American art of brain tanning. Rose is a reenactor who is passionate about