Articles Tagged: Cedar Rapids

Announcement comes after fatal shooting at NYC office building.

Iowa programs tend to focus on physical improvements, emotional support to help older adults.

Also in this week’s Government Notes, Cedar Rapids is supporting a new initiative to address homelessness.

College Community School District is launching a program with the upcoming school year that educators hope will immerse kids in learning through play. CCSD says it is among the first school districts in Iowa to implement the learning model.

The Wellington Heights Neighborhood Association hosted an art and music event for all ages at Redmond Park on Sunday

An emerging trend shows an uptick in restaurants running without proper licensure, locally and statewide.

Infections — both viral and bacterial — are common, especially in your eyes. Iowa Eye Center’s Dr. Brian Privett has a few tips to spot, treat and keep eye infections at bay.

The 99-year-old Cedar Rapids retiree has been donating blood for 25 years. According to ImpactLife, Nadene Roberts is the nonprofit community blood center’s oldest donor and volunteer blood drive coordinator.

In Iowa, where Trump’s executive order pushing for forcible hospitalization over supportive housing could have significant implications, one homeless services provider says “Nothing in the order does anything that is proven to end homelessness. And in fact, it does the opposite.”

A plea for help made last week by a nonprofit grocery store in Cedar Rapids has sparked a large response from community members to support the store’s goal of providing food for a neighborhood that would be a food desert if not for its presence.

The discovery of dozens of temporary, unpermitted wells on a Cedar Rapids construction site has set off a flurry of public confusion and regulatory response across several governmental bodies over the last month.

University of Iowa Health Care is looking to expand and further cement its “commitment to serving Cedar Rapids” by capitalizing on the retirement of a private practitioner and buying his 37,850-square-foot medical office building.

This summer, the Schwartzkopf Gallery’s first international artist expounds on a classic poet’s wisdom about longing through several series spanning written and visual mediums.

The Academy for Scholastic & Personal Success’ summer program provides high school students an education they can’t find in a public school classroom. It teaches students about Black history, literature, math, science and financial literacy. The 2025 summer session concludes Friday with a closing ceremony.

The two projects will add a combined 48 units to western Cedar Rapids in previously flood-ravaged areas.