The budget comes with complications as state legislators weigh bills that would change the residential rollback, or percentage of a property’s value that can be taxed.
Budget processes will soon be underway in Waterloo as the City Council begins discussing the maximum tax levy.
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The councilman would like a future meeting ultimately to end in consensus on putting out a request for proposal to companies capable of doing the work.
Temperatures shot up over the weekend, making for a comfortable Saturday for the several hundred who made it out to the Ice Harvest Festival in Cedar Falls.
WATERLOO — Waterloo residents’ stuff was safer in 2022, even though residents themselves were not.
CORALVILLE – Eric Whitcome tried to tell the seeding committee his team was No. 1.
CORALVILLE – Chris Ortner was still sweating minutes after it was over.
CEDAR FALLS — Scoreless stretches of five minutes and four minutes proved detrimental for Northern Iowa as the Panthers fell to Bradley, 77-69, Saturday.
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Photos of Waverly-Shell Rock, Don Bosco, Osage and Nashua-Plainfield wrestlers at the boys state dual wrestling semifinals at Xtream Arena on Saturday in Coralville.
Photos of Waverly-Shell Rock, Don Bosco, Osage and Nashua-Plainfield wrestlers at the boys state dual wrestling semifinals and finals at Xtream Arena on Saturday in Coralville.
AMES — Jaren Holmes felt a bit groggy. The Iowa State guard’s stomach hurt. So after going scoreless in the first half of Saturday’s high-stakes game against No. 8 Kansas at Hilton Coliseum, Holmes desperately needed a different kind of bucket.
The national Democratic Party approved changes Saturday to its presidential primary calendar for 2024, knocking the Iowa party off its envied first-in-the-nation perch as the starting gun for the presidential election.
CORALVILLE – All great plans can be laid to waste in a matter of moments.
The Fargo Force pulled away prior to the first intermission and scored multiple goals in each period, topping the Waterloo Black Hawks 7-4 Friday at Young Arena during the initial matchup in a two-game series.
72 vendors dot the scene. The show continues Saturday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
CEDAR FALLS — A quartet of Tigers scored in double figures as (12-4) Cedar Falls downed metro rival No. 7 Waterloo West, 71-58, for the second time this season.
Two red-hot teams. An intense rivalry with Division-I talent all over the floor.And a game to match the accolades.
Photos of Cedar Valley athletes at the girls state wrestling semifinal and final rounds at Xtream Arena in Coralville on Friday.
Photos of Cedar Valley athletes at the girls state wrestling semifinal and final rounds at Xtream Arena in Coralville on Friday.
CORALVILLE – Lilly Luft’s hand was raised and she was spun around by an official so all the fans at Xtream Arena could acknowledge the state champion wrestler.
CORALVILLE – Kiara Djoumessi did it again, and again with a smile on her face.
The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier garnered seven awards – including three first place prizes – at the 2023 Iowa Newspaper Association Convention and Awards Ceremony on Thursday.
School districts would be fined between $500 and $5,000 if they are found in violation of the divisive concepts law under a proposal that received its first legislative approval.
NASHUA — The Nashua-Plainfield Community School District will host an informational meeting focused on the upcoming revenue bond issue referendum and the plan to build a new baseball/softball complex at the Plainfield campus.
WATERLOO — A Waterloo man has been arrested after his girlfriend showed up at the hospital with a gunshot wound early Friday.
SPRINGDALE, Ark. — Tyson Foods donated more than 18 million pounds of protein – the equivalent of approximately 72 million servings – to food banks, pantries and hunger relief organizations across the nation in fiscal 2022.
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