State/Local News

DES MOINES — Gov. Kim Reynolds plans to make a live address to Iowans at 6:05 p.m. today about the worsening coronavirus trends in the state. According to the governor’s office, the...

Andre Perry doesn’t mince words when it comes to describing the need for centers like The Englert and FilmScene in downtown Iowa City. “We’re arts organizations, but, at our core,...

WASHINGTON — The United States’ top infectious disease expert says news from Moderna that its COVID-19 vaccine candidate is 94.5% effective “is really quite impressive.”...

Despite painstaking efforts to keep election sites safe, some poll workers who came in contact with voters, including one in Cedar Rapids, have tested positive for the coronavirus. More than two...

CORALVILLE — A city board designed to analyze police data and help residents address issues of biased policing or racial profiling could soon be a reality in Coralville. The City Council last...

Iowa’s public universities made the monumental shift last spring to predominantly virtual and hybrid learning impressively, but Board of Regents auditors have identified some holes —...

BETTENDORF, Iowa — Former U.S. Sen. Roger Jepsen, who represented Iowa in Washington, D.C., in the early 1980s, has died. The 91-year-old Republican died Friday at a hospice in Bettendorf,...

CEDAR RAPIDS — An 18-year-old Cedar Rapids man, previously convicted of two carjackings at age 15, decided not to plead last week to charges in a third carjacking. The Gazette incorrectly...

The number of patients being treated in Iowa hospitals for the COVID-19 respiratory disease continued to trend in the wrong direction Sunday, with record numbers of people admitted, placed in...

Iowa Senate Democrats have elected first-term Sen. Zach Wahls of Coralville to be their minority leader in the 2021 session. Wahls, a credit union vice president, said the 18-member Senate caucus...

As many businesses reach the eight-month mark of working predominantly from home, Cedar Rapids’ commercial office market is feeling the impact. Scott Olson, a commercial real estate broker and...

CEDAR RAPIDS — Despite losing six seats in an election when they were expected to make gains, perhaps, even win control of the Iowa House, Democrats re-elected Minority Leader Todd Prichard...

As a senior at Hoover High School last spring in Des Moines, Annika Baker was supposed to play the lead as Elle in her school production of “Legally Blonde,” the musical. But COVID-19...

Iowa saw its seventh day in a row of record hospitalizations connected to the novel coronavirus for the 24-hour period as of 11 a.m. Saturday. The Iowa Department of Public Health reported 1,261...

CEDAR RAPIDS — Since the Aug. 10 derecho, Cedar Rapids firefighters have been called to eight fires involving storm debris, all of them intentionally or accidentally set by...

With just a few dozen votes still separating them and a districtwide recount pending, both candidates in Iowa’s still-too-close-to-call 2nd Congressional District prepared for the possibility...

Eight Iowa labor and civil rights groups have filed a federal complaint Friday alleging the state has failed to protect workers during the pandemic in meatpacking, dairy, construction,...

GreenState Credit Union will not reopen its Hiawatha branch, which suffered significant roof damage from the Aug. 10 derecho, Executive Vice President Jim Kelly said. Kelly cited “cost...

CEDAR RAPIDS — Black business owners will offer a range of products and services Saturday at the second Black-owned Business Guest Vendor Market. The event at NewBo City Market in Cedar...

CEDAR RAPIDS — For every civil rights milestone we celebrate, there is a history of oppression that made it necessary. That’s one of the messages of “Exhibiting Bias,” a...