Alison Gowans

CEDAR RAPIDS – When Jim Milden, 70, was diagnosed in June with stage 4 colon cancer, he thought, ‘I’d better …

Jerome Smallwood named his restaurant Vivian’s Soul Food after his mother, who taught him to cook. ‘That’s where I got …

‘Live passionately” is painted on one wall of Rebecca and Phil Davidson’s new Kingston Village cafe, Dash Coffee Roasters. It …

Every year when the holidays roll around, the United Way of East Central Iowa is flooded with calls from people …

Christmas is going nautical at the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum in West Branch this year. Seventeen holiday trees …

When she was a little girl, Caleetta Berry’s grandmother Norma taught her to cook. ‘I grew up cooking in the …

In between Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday, a new shopping day has arrived: Museum Store Sunday, on …

It was 2008, and I was waiting tables at a local diner. Most of our customers were decent, good people …

In December of 1932, a group gathered at the Roosevelt Hotel in downtown Cedar Rapids for the inaugural meeting of …

CEDAR RAPIDS – Dave Gosch, 55, looked around Tricia Weber’s classroom at Grant Wood Elementary School last week and recalled …

CEDAR RAPIDS – After years of planning, fundraising and construction, congregants at a historic Cedar Rapids church celebrated their building’s …

Grace Fincham is in fourth grade, and she loves to run. Specifically, the 10-year-old, who attends Lincoln Elementary School in …

Going on a diet is never easy. Add in giving up coffee drinks, and for some it can feel impossible. …

Walking into the Petrick gallery at the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library, visitors are surrounded by glittering jewels, …

When Tyler Tiecke, Jerry Vasquez and his mother, Elsa de La Paz, wanted to expand their Iowa City restaurant, Mami’s, …