LENEXA, Kansas, June 27 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release on June 26, 2024: * * * Supplemental funding through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law will provide more opportunities for cleanups in Iowa communities * * * Today, at a brownfield site in Clinton, Iowa, EPA Region 7 Brownfields and Land Revitalization Branch Supervisor Stanley Walker presented a $3 million ceremonial check to the East Central Intergovernmental Association (ECIA) in Iowa to supp  more

WASHINGTON, June 26 -- The White House issued the following news release on June 24, 2024: Today, President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. declared that a major disaster exists in the State of Iowa and ordered Federal aid to supplement State, tribal, and local recovery efforts in the areas affected by severe storms, flooding, straight-line winds, and tornadoes beginning on June 16, 2024, and continuing. The President's action makes Federal funding available to affected individuals in the counties of Cla  more

SACRAMENTO, California, June 26 -- The Small Business Administration's Office of Disaster Assistance issued the following news release: Low-interest federal disaster loans are now available to Iowa businesses and residents as a result of President Biden's major disaster declaration, U.S. Small Business Administration's Administrator Isabella Casillas Guzmanannounced. The declaration covers Clay, Emmet, Lyon, Plymouth and Sioux counties as a result of severe storms, flooding, straight-line wind  more

BURLINGTON, Iowa, June 27 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's U.S. Marshals Service issued the following news release: From Apr. 29 - May 31, members of the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) Southern Iowa Fugitive Task Force - including the USMS, Des Moines County Sheriff's Office, Burlington Police Department, Fort Madison Police Department, Polk County Sheriff's Office, Iowa Department of Corrections High Risk Unit, and the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigations - joined forces with law enforcem  more

SCHRIEVER SPACE FORCE BASE, Colorado, June 27 -- Peterson and Schriever Space Force Base issued the following news: By 1st Lt. Danielle Rose, Space Base Delta 1 Public Affairs For three days from June 28-30, 50 women are slated to gather in Greeley, Colorado to compete in the 2024 Miss Colorado USA Pageant, one contestant being U.S. Space Force Spc. 4 Brianna Guillory, 4th Space Operations Squadron wideband engineer. From Iowa, Louisiana, a small town of less than 3,500 people, Guillory grew   more

WASHINGTON, June 26 -- The U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration issued the following news release on June 25, 2024: Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $790,000 grant to the Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma in Perkins, Oklahoma, to help develop and implement disaster recovery and resiliency strategies. This grant will support the Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma and tribal partners across the state by providing technical ass  more

WASHINGTON, June 26 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's U.S. Geological Survey issued the following news release: The flooding broke records in at least 10 places after 8-10 inches of rain fell in just three days around Sioux Falls. The West Fork Vermillion River near Parker, South Dakota (with data back to 1962) was 2 feet higher than its previous record from 2019. Big Sioux River at Akron, Iowa (with data back to 1929) was 1.88 feet higher than its previous record in 2014. This gauge als  more