News by State: Iowa

News from the past 14 days. Please visit the News Archive or State Resources: Iowa for earlier stories.

Free Land the Key to Small Towns' Growth?     Top Story 
Nov 16, 2009 -- Des Moines Register, (IA) article via Center for Rural Affairs tells how the small town of Manilla, Iowa, offers free land and suspends property taxes for five years for those who build a home in their developments, a throwback to how plains states were homesteaded in the 1800s.

Manufacturing Demise Hits Rural Iowa
Nov 16, 2009 -- Des Moines Register, (IA) article reports that towns in Iowa with fewer than 30,000 residents have lost 20,000 factory jobs since 2007.