Joe Bolkcom

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) - State and local officials promised an Egyptian company $200 million in tax breaks to build a fertilizer plant in southeast Iowa without knowledge of a pending lawsuit alleging one of the company's subsidiaries defrauded U.S....

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) - Wastewater treatment and industrial plants would be asked to make costly upgrades to cut pollution while farmers would do so voluntarily under a long-awaited strategy released Monday to reduce harmful nutrients in Iowa waterways and...

A key lawmaker is predicting the Legislature will find a compromise that would block a proposed clinic in Council Bluffs that would perform late-term abortions. Iowa City Democratic Sen. Joe Bolkcom says a compromise could be reached later this week that...

The Iowa Senate is expected to vote on a measure designed to prevent a Nebraska doctor from opening a clinic in Council Bluffs that provides late-term abortions. The measure scheduled for a vote Monday is backed by Iowa City Sen. Joe Bolkcom, who says it...

A state senator says he will introduce legislation later this week designed to block a Council Bluffs clinic that would provide late-term abortions. Iowa City Democrat Joe Bolkcom told reporters Tuesday he will introduce his measure in the Senate Ways...

Legislative Democrats have proposed a $200 million plan to ease business property taxes, focusing mostly on smaller businesses. Under the plan, the first $30,000 of the value of a business property would be taxed at residential property rates, which...