Love them or hate the devices, the City Council is slated to consider keeping electric scooters and bikes. The city may OK a three-year contract extension with VeoRide for the device rental program with changes to address safety and clutter concerns.
The citizen panel completing a once-a-decade review of Cedar Rapids’ charter anticipates extending the deadline to recommend changes to the city’s foundational document to leave ample time to review and weigh feedback.
Progress on $750 million flood protection system is “great story to tell back in Washington,” Rep. Hinson says after tour, but she also sees a funding gap as materials prices rise.
Twin Pines and Mini Pines, Gardner and Ellis Golf Courses are reopening for the season in Cedar Rapids.
Leveraging the onetime influx of federal funding through the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, here’s how Iowa communities are giving key priorities a boost to promote long-term growth as the nation shakes off the fiscal toll of COVID-19.
See Swisher’s Haley Slaton on “American Idol” and Cedar Rapids’ Alisabeth Von Presley on “American Song Contest” represent Iowa.
James Shannon Sr., 50, faces three counts of third-degree sexual abuse, accused of sexually abusing a teenager in 2005 and 2006.
Michael Bornstein, a survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp during the Holocaust, will speak on his harrowing experience amid rising antisemitism.
A 19-year-old Cedar Rapids man is accused of harboring a runaway. He allegedly took a 14-year-old from her house in Marion and drove her to Ohio.
Geneva Tower residents who had yet to return to their apartments after being dislocated by a fire in February were moved back home this week.
The Eastern Iowa Airport will be eligible for $28.4 million, which will enable the airport to complete the fourth and final phase of its terminal upgrade project.
“Disney Princess — The Concert,” which debuts with an 80-plus-city tour across America this winter and spring. It is coming to the Paramount Theatre in downtown Cedar Rapids on Friday, March 18, 2022.
Mama Pearls in Cedar Rapids brings a new take on soul food to a cloud kitchen — and the restaurant has a dessert menu just for the Southern sweet tooth.
Big Grove Brewery announced Friday a total of $24,000 in grants to a trio of local nonprofits as part of its Big Grove for Good program.
Mamacita Taco Pub is owned by local restaurateurs Haile Duncan and Ozzie Aguirre, who own Mas Margaritas and the recently opened La Casita, right next door to Mamacita.
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