DES MOINES, Iowa, May 22 -- The Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird issued the following news release on May 21, 2024: Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird today led a 20-state lawsuit challenging a new Biden mandate that creates roadblocks for infrastructure projects by forcing social, environmental, and race-based regulations on developers. The mandate eliminates President Trump's common-sense reforms that streamlined development, to instead force Biden's radical green agenda. With the mandate in  more

PIERRE, South Dakota, May 22 -- Gov. Kristi Noem, R-South Dakota, issued the following news release on May 21, 2024: Today, Governor Kristi Noem announced that she will appoint Rick Vallery to serve on the Transportation Commission. "South Dakota's Transportation Commission is dedicated to keeping our citizens safe as they travel," said Governor Noem, "Rick has worked with me for years both in Congress and as part of my administration, and I am confident that he will serve this state well in t  more

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, May 21 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Iowa issued the following news release: Timothy Mullally, 48, from Le Mars, Iowa, pled guilty on May 16, 2024, in federal court in Sioux City to one count of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and one count of prohibited person in possession of firearms. At the plea hearing, Mullally admitted that between January 2022 through September 2022, he and others distributed more than two kilograms of meth  more

WASHINGTON, May 22 -- The U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration issued the following news release on May 21, 2024: Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding an $800,000 grant to the Northeast Council of Governments Development Corporation in Aberdeen, South Dakota, to capitalize and administer a Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) serving small businesses in 12 counties in Northeast South Dakota. The RLF will support busine  more