Diane Fannon-Langton

Bike riders have joined in a ride around Cedar Rapids on Labor Day for 13 of the past 15 years. The ride was not held in 2008 after the flood or 2020 because of the derecho. And organizers have canceled this year’s ride because of COVID-19.

Volunteer labor and fundraising turn 1891 depot into an events center.

They came for a Herbert Hoover birthday event in 1965, the year after Hoover, the only president born in Iowa, died

A gun battle in the Cedar Rapids Carnegie library ends in death for an officer.

Jean Strong set her sights on a journalism career while in Springville High School.

The primitive state park in Fayette County, dating from the 1930s, offers two rippling trout streams and a beautiful, quiet place to reconnect with nature.

The key to taller corn — and better yields — is planting early and controlling weeds, most farmers say.

The 54-year-old Cedar Rapids school, at 6225 First Ave. SW, has structural problems and will be replaced with West Willow Elementary this fall.

Post was known for its drum and bugle corps, boxing matches during 1930s

A.B.T. Moore led Gideons in early 1900s when they began placing Bibles in hotel rooms. His pastor, Dr. E.R. Burkhalter, pitched the idea.

U.S. District Judge Edward J. McManus presided over high-profile trials in Cedar Rapids in the 1970s involving members of the American Indian Movement, as well as a land dispute involving Omaha tribal members.

‘Overalls All Over’ public art was a hit in Cedar Rapids in 2001

Julien Dubuque worked as a trader, miner and married daughter of Meskwaki chief

Shooting of students and an unpopular war in Vietnam led to unrest at University of Iowa, other Iowa colleges

Schoolchildren in Eastern Iowa in the 1930s into the 1960s often got to visit places or experience events that are …