Articles Tagged: Cedar Rapids

The Cedar Rapids Concert Chorale's 2025-26 season will kick off Nov. 1 with “Peace and Unity for All Nations,” a concert expressing in music our collective longing for peace and unity around the world.

Also in this week’s Government Notes, the Iowa City school board on Tuesday will discuss the district’s ‘continuum of services’

Immigrant workers make up roughly 7.4 percent of the state’s workforce. Now, some might be at risk.

In its first year, Cedar Rapids Prep has enrolled 255 students in sixth through eighth grade, with 25 students on a waiting list. The new charter school’s students are “owning and driving their learning” in “orderly classrooms where there’s not chaos and disruptions,” says Cedar Rapids Prep Principal Justin Blietz.

No charges will be filed against four Cedar Rapids police officers after an officer-involved shooting in August, according to a report from the Linn County Attorney’s Office which ruled the shooting justified.

A Cedar Rapids man was sentenced to 22 years for sexually assaulting a child over the course of six years. The child was 6 years old when the abuse started and didn’t end until she was 12 years old.

A Cedar Rapids man was arrested Thursday on charges that he stole more than $10,000 from his grandmother, for whom he was a caretaker and had financial power of attorney.

Students at Johnson STEAM Academy in Cedar Rapids painted a snow plow blade as part of a program that decorates city plows ahead of the winter season. Crews will use the blade on roads near the locations that created the artwork and give people a chance to see the artwork in action.

The Grand White Rabbit Tea Co., opened last month at Lindale Mall, is a new tea and hand pie concept offering qualities meant to be savored.

The Cedar Rapids City Council has signaled early intent to rezone the land around a former elementary school for a planned apartment development.

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The exhibit, “Men and Women at Work: Images of Labor from the Collection,” will explore the world of work and workers and is open now through Jan. 18, 2026, at the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art.

The city of Cedar Rapids is seeking citizen feedback on its Animal Care & Control operations as it works to chart the department’s future.

Also in this week’s Government Notes roundup, the League of Women Voters of Linn County will host a Cedar Rapids school board candidate forum this week.

At Lion Bridge Brewery in Cedar Rapids, U.S. Senate candidate Nathan Sage shared his story of growing up poor in Mason City, serving three tours in Iraq, and leading a local chamber of commerce — arguing those experiences shaped his fight for workers, unions and rural Iowans.