Articles Tagged: Cedar Rapids

The Cedar Rapids-based company will supply next-generation surveillance radar as part of federal air traffic control overhaul.

A Marion caffeine staple is opening its first expansion soon as another shop in Cedar Rapids moves around the corner.

Variety is the spice of life — and the foundation of The Martini Lounge’s new menu in Cedar Rapids.

Two people were arrested over the weekend on charges that they broke into a Cedar Rapids home Friday with a gun.

A Cedar Rapids man pending trial for five years took a plea deal last month in a burglary and fatal shooting from 2020. His trial was set to start this week in Linn County.

Johan Strauss II's masterwork, which will be performed Jan. 16 and 18 by the Cedar Rapids Opera with Orchestra Iowa at the Paramount Theatre, is a breezy production that features mistaken identities, scandalous love interests, surprising chaos and unpredictable, amusing outcomes.

Roots & Recipes, a new multimedia project for students in Cedar Rapids, is telling the stories of immigrants and first-generation Americans through ancestral foods.

Also in this week’s Government Notes, the Cedar Rapids school board will meet Monday to consider proposed budget reductions.

An annual housing report shows there were approximately approximately 7,092 roommate households in Linn County in 2025 — up from just over 6,700 in 2010 and closer to 5,300 in 2000. Those figures account for unmarried couples without children and households with platonic roommate pairs or groups.

A Cedar Rapids man charged with attempted murder after a shooting Sunday had his first appearance in court Friday and is being held in the Linn County Jail on a $40,000 cash-only bond.

Freedom Festival, best known for planning Cedar Rapids Fourth of July festivities, is continuing to serve those who make freedom possible throughout the year.

A Cedar Rapids man who was convicted as a teenager in a fatal 2020 shooting was sentenced this week to more than three years in federal prison after authorities found him carrying a stolen handgun while riding in a rideshare car.

Thomas J. Vesey was arrested Tuesday and remains in custody at the Linn County Jail.

With 2025 behind us, here are the food and restaurant stories you ate up this year.

Yuengling, which claims the title of America’s oldest brewery with a founding in 1829, will soon be for sale in Iowa with its latest advance in territory.