State/Local News

CEDAR RAPIDS — Elected officials are calling a $5 million pledge from the city a “milestone” in a decades-long effort to spruce up Cedar Lake and a more recent plan to construct...

IOWA CITY — Crews began construction this week on the $3 million first phase of Riverfront Crossings Park — a project years in the making that could become the...

During his Senate hearing to be confirmed as ambassador to China, then-Gov. Terry Branstad said he would prefer to serve Iowa beef — not cuts from Australia — at the U.S. Embassy...

Anyone paying attention to Iowa’s individual insurance market over the past several months knows it has been a bit tumultuous. Two insurers announced within days of one another that they would...

WAVERLY — A simple question at the beginning of a tour of Waverly’s United Equipment Accessories set up perfectly one of the biggest concerns of its president and chief executive. Gov....

CEDAR RAPIDS — Steve West, chairman of the board for West Music, has been appointed to the Cedar Rapids Airport Commission, which oversees The Eastern Iowa Airport. With his appointment, West,...

IOWA CITY — Even as it maintains its status as the top children’s hospital in Iowa and among the nation’s best in several specialties, the University of Iowa Stead Family...

The American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa and six Iowa attorneys have filed a petition asking the state Department of Education to revise rules for secluding and restraining students. The request...

CEDAR RAPIDS — The five-letter last name “Chase” sits above the front door of Edith Chase’s 122-year-old home in southwest Cedar Rapids. In the front lawn, a tiny house...

Iowa-based hotel company Hawkeye Hotels has moved into a new home in Coralville. The company cut the ribbon on its newly constructed 21,000-square-foot building there last week. The celebration...

WASHINGTON — Facing a rebellion within their own ranks, Senate Republican leaders on Tuesday postponed a vote to overhaul the 2010 Affordable Care Act until after the July Fourth recess. The...

CEDAR RAPIDS — Two Cedar Rapids men face weapons charges for an incident alleged to have occurred Tuesday morning. According to the Linn County Attorney’s Office and Cedar Rapids public...

IOWA CITY — Organizers say an estimated 30,000 people attended Iowa City Downtown District’s first-ever Downtown Block Party Saturday night — double the group’s...

CEDAR RAPIDS — Cedar Rapids police are investigating an armed robbery at an area fast food restaurant. According to Cedar Rapids public safety spokesman Greg Buelow, officers were called to...

It might seem logical that the states with the highest prevalence of overweight people would have the highest percentages of hefty pets. Surely all those fit Coloradans with their outdoorsy...

USA Gymnastics will take a much stronger role in oversight of thousands of private gymnastics clubs across the country to ensure prevention of sex abuse — making reporting of suspected abuse...

CEDAR RAPIDS — Eleven children scatter across Ms. Lockhart’s fourth-grade classroom on the second floor of Arthur Elementary School in northeast Cedar Rapids. The kids, sitting along...

Monday’s Supreme Court decision largely permitting President Donald Trump’s travel ban is unlikely to affect international students at Iowa’s universities any more than the issue...

CEDAR RAPIDS — Like ants on a hill. This is how Don Clow, who’s been directing the Five Seasons Ski Team for nearly 37 years, refers to the team’s preshow preparations —...

CEDAR RAPIDS — The fledgling fireworks experiment in Cedar Rapids has already gotten “out of control,” some residents say. The explosions go boom, boom, boom for hours, night...