Monday night’s Petaluma City Council meeting was like any other for most of its six-hour duration – until the end, when outbursts during and after the council’s final vote approving the controversial ...

Iowa law allows fireworks to be sold at a permanent building between June 1 and July 8 and again between Dec. 10 and Jan. 3. A memo from Bettendorf city staff argues that the limited window for sales ...