Iowa

After management and physicians from both health systems worked to provide a merger recommendation, the UnityPoint Health board “failed to embrace the vision."

Iowa accounted for $16 million of the approximately $36.1 million in aggie bonds issued in 2017, according to a recent survey by the Council of Development Finance Agencies.

The city of Clear Lake, Iowa, is hoping a full-service investment-banking firm will help it secure the highest credit rating.

Municipal bond issuers in the Midwest recorded a healthy year-over-year volume gain, in contrast to flat nationwide numbers.

Nonprofit healthcare consolidation continues with two big multi-state deals.

Damage from the floodwaters will impact state and local governments and ripple through the region's economy.

The Fort Madison School Board on Monday adopted a resolution ordering a special election on the issuance of a $30 million general obligation bond.

The Fort Madison School District this spring will, for a fourth time since 2016, ask voters to approve the issuance of a multimillion-dollar general obligation bond to build a new elementary building to replace its two existing ones.

S&P Global Ratings cut Coralville to speculative grade citing the added debt burden and financing risks.

Danville schools will get some much-needed improvements, thanks to residents who voted in favor of an $8.9 million general obligation bond.

The Danville School District once again is asking for the public's approval to take out a general obligation bond — this time for $8.9 million — to be used for school remodeling, improvements and updates.

Volume was off in eight of the region's 11 states in the wake of tax reform and the end of advance refundings.

Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska and North Dakota are vulnerable to a trade war, Moody's Investors Service says.

Six straight treasurers want SEC chairman Jay Clayton to stay the course on the commission's forced arbitration policy.

Authority officials say it's business as usual at the authority amid several probes that followed the termination of Dave Jamison.

As the Linn-Mar Community School District's superintendent prepares to leave the growing district, board members are set to again ask voters to finance the building of new schools.

Floyd County locked up public support to replace its inferior jail.

Henry County supervisors tabled the awarding of contracts for the construction of the new Henry County law center again at Thursday's meeting, after the agenda item was tabled first at Tuesday's meeting.

A recount of ballots cast earlier this month on the Fort Madison School District's $30 million general obligation bond referendum yielded no change in support.

Ballots cast on the Fort Madison School District's $30 million bond referendum earlier this month will be recounted.