Alison Gowans

In the front display case of the University of Iowa Main Library’s first floor gallery, the tribbles are slowly multiplying. …

IOWA CITY — To reach Joe Coulter’s stone cottage, high on a hill overlooking North Dubuque Street in Iowa City, …

For the last five months, Laura Adams has been in the hospital after a rare complication post-childbirth. Reporter Alison Gowans follows the 26-year-old as she fights to hold on to her life. This is Part 1 of Laura's story. Part 2 will be published online and in print Sunday, June 19.

Edwin Valladares wants to bring people together through dance. Valladares, 39, who DJs as Edwin Alvarado, started a free summer …

MARENGO — If you call ahead to Genoa Bluffs farm, just off Interstate 80 south of Marengo, Ken Schaefer will …

CEDAR RAPIDS — Jarome Thompson is deep in concentration. His focus falls on two small pieces of pink-colored rosewood spinning …

I spend a lot of time thinking about comic books. Wait, scratch that. I spend a lot of time thinking …

My house is over a century old. I bought it for it’s character and charm — the wood floors, the …

A Denver, Colo.-based grocery store chain is planning to expand into Eastern Iowa. Natural Grocers, which sells organic and natural …

At the Dennis and Donna Oldorf Hospice House of Mercy in Hiawatha, massage therapist Cindy Staton greeted Janice Slater, 86, …

CEDAR RAPIDS — In 1965, Mary Beth Tinker was just 13 when she and four other students wore black armbands …

Say goodbye to the Cedar Rapids Area Convention and Visitors Bureau. The organization is now called GO Cedar Rapids, president …

I am sitting on my back porch as I write this, staring at my yard, which is full of creeping …

Fancy a beer while shopping? You’re in luck — a new Cedar Rapids farmers market will let shoppers raise a …

Five of my closest friends and I are in a boat floating through the Florida everglades, and the captain is …