Articles Tagged: Cedar Rapids

Held Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 15-16, 2025 at Lindale Mall.

The Gazette’s annual special section dedicated to skilled trades in Eastern Iowa.

At a Cedar Rapids church, three Democratic U.S. Senate candidates — Josh Turek, Zach Wahls, and Nathan Sage — reflected on the Black national anthem’s lessons of unity, hope and perservearance, sharing personal stories that shape their priorities on healthcare, equity, and economic justice.

Iowa U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson met with veterans in Cedar Rapids about efforts to end the record-long government shutdown, ensure SNAP and military pay, reform ACA subsidies, and preserve the Senate filibuster as a bipartisan “guardrail.”

City workers in Cedar Rapids put out dozens of flags Friday in preparation for Veterans Day next week

The Cedar Rapids Police Department is investigating a Thursday afternoon shooting that left one man with injuries that are not life-threatening, according to a press release from the police department.

A food truck in Cedar Rapids is parking for good.

Craft’d After Dark is stepping out into its own space with a new name.

Traffic through downtown Cedar Rapids on the First Avenue Bridge will be affected Thursday and Friday as the city conducts floodgate testing.

Matthew 25 co-founder Courtney Ball has been tapped to take the nonprofit “into the future.”

A Cedar Rapids man was arrested Tuesday on charges that he fired a gun at two men who were in a car in an alleyway next to his house in the 500 block of 6th Ave. SW.

Six years after Westdale Bowling Center closed in southwest Cedar Rapids, the complex’s massive 43,000-square-foot space has reopened with new sights and smells from Backyard BBQ.

Unofficial results show the Cedar Rapids school district’s $117 million bond referendum narrowly failing by less than 1 percent — fewer than 200 votes short of approval. The referendum received just over 59 percent approval but requires a supermajority of 60 percent to pass.

All five incumbents secured additional four-year terms, although only two faced challengers.

A collaborative of area health care providers and Linn County social service agencies is exploring the feasibility of creating a street medicine team to help deliver health care to the unhoused.