The Johnson County Board of Supervisors voted to increase the county’s recommended minimum wage 13 cents to $10.40 per hour.
The move continues the recommended phased increases in the county’s minimum...
Emily Wangen, Politics Reporter
• February 26, 2019
An Iowa City company seeks to bring new technology to the fields with automated drones, but employees would like Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds to increase bandwidth in rural Iowa to help with connectivity.
Automated...
The Johnson County fiscal 2020 budget estimate, approved by the Board of Supervisors last week, focuses heavily on capital projects and renovation.
County financial administrator Dana Aschenbrenner said...
The Johnson County Citizens Police Academy has reached maximum enrollment capacity for the first time in recent memory. The academy, now in its 22nd year, combines the Iowa City, Coralville, North Liberty,...
Hawkeye Dreamers will not have to worry about leaving the U.S. for at least several more months after the Supreme Court on Tuesday took no action on a case concerning the legality of the Trump administration’s...
Iowa City and the University of Iowa have developed online databases to better track the trees that grow in city and on campus.
In the past week and a half, Iowa City Parks & Recreation opened the...
In the second Board of Supervisors election in as many months, Johnson County voters elected Democrat Royceann Porter to be their fifth representative on the board on Tuesday, maintaining the board’s...
Johnson County residents filled City Hall on Wednesday to attend a forum presenting the candidates for the Dec. 18 Johnson County Board of Supervisors’ election.
The forum, held by the Johnson County...
As the Dec. 18 special election for the Johnson County Board of Supervisors approaches, Republicans and Democrats of Johnson County have chosen their candidates for the position.
The special election...
Three Johnson County residents have announced their candidacy for the Dec. 18 special election for the Johnson County Board of Supervisors.
Following the death of Supervisor Kurt Friese on Oct. 26,...
Following the announcement in October that Canada will begin taxing carbon in 2019 and a failed attempt to pass a similar measure in Washington, local climate activists are pushing to create such a tax...
