With the help of Kirkwood Workplace Learning Connection, middle and high school students are getting the opportunity to explore careers. It’s an experience that helped Prairie High School senior Alexa Higginbotham figure out her next steps.
Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement held a forum during which people could tell their elected officials about the housing struggles they’d experienced firsthand.
The threat of a federal government shutdown ended late Saturday, hours before a midnight deadline, as Congress approved a temporary funding bill to keep agencies open and sent the measure to President Joe Biden to sign.
In the hills of a dry, remote patch of California farm country, Lee Harrington carefully monitors the drips moistening his pistachio trees to ensure they’re not wasting any of the groundwater at the heart of a vicious fight.