A report released today by the American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa suggests the use of automatic license plate readers is expanding in Iowa. Rita Bettis Austen, the ACLU of Iowa’s legal director, said Iowa taxpayers “have collectively been spending huge...
What one forecaster is calling an “arctic blast” is headed for Iowa tonight that’ll mean dangerously bitter cold temperatures by early tomorrow. Meteorologist Jim Lee, at the National Weather Service in metro Des Moines, says most of the state will...
There’s now a timeline for the closing of the old Mississippi River bridge from Lansing to Wisconsin, and the opening of the new bridge. DOT Highway Division Administrator Tony Gustafson says the old bridge will close in October. “When the bridge is closed...
The people who help manage RAGBRAI, the Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa, are inspecting the route for this year’s event. RAGBRAI ride director Matt Phippen is one of the 25 bicyclists in the group. “We’re going to ride every...
Traffic from planes, trains and automobiles has returned to pre-pandemic levels in Iowa, but there’s one area that hasn’t fully recovered. The Iowa Department of Transportation’s Stuart Anderson says ridership on public transportation still lags....
