Cedar Rapids City Council passed a second and third, final reading of a rezoning ordinance for the new Cedar Crossing Casino ...

Nearly $2 million in federal grants are now on their way to NewBo City Market for its expansion project.Groundbreaking is set ...

New federal legislation will help speed up the next step of the Cedar Rapids flood control project. The Water Resources Development Act will allow the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers to reassess the ...

CEDAR RAPIDS — A historic New Bohemia building ... who bought it in 2000. Before the flood of 2008, the second floor served as their home while the main level served as a workspace and youth ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. CEDAR RAPIDS — The planned expansion of NewBo City Market now can move forward following the ...

The push for one Iowa landowner to farm a designated wetland is likely to affect neighbors downstream. And a legal weight ...

Cedar Rapids City Council is looking to rezone the property of the ... among other feedback for the final design, including flood mitigation efforts. "The overlay takes into consideration the unique ...

The release of nearly $2 million in federal grants is clearing the way for construction to begin this fall on the ...

Lawyers in potential landmark Iowa swampbuster case argue that the landowner who filed the suit never sought removal of wetland status for his land ...

The 1985 "Swampbuster" law — which has protected millions of acres of U.S. wetlands from being cleared and plowed — is being ...

In the Sackett decision, the court ruled that wetlands are protected by the Clean Water Act only when they have a “continuous ...

CEDAR RAPIDS — A federal judge has heard oral ... wetlands provide protection from residential flood damages equivalent to nearly $23 billion annually. Wetlands in Iowa alone have the potential ...