The Iowa Natural Resource Commission has approved leasing a 575 foot stretch along the Mississippi River to the fertilizer plant in southeast Iowa’s Lee County for $1421.40 a year. Managers of the Koch Fertilizer Plant in southeast Iowa have told state officials they plan to load and unload barges along that part of the river. […]

Bill makes smuggling undocumented immigrants a crime in Iowa
Human smuggling of undocumented immigrants — to conceal them from law enforcement — would become a crime in Iowa if a






