Emily Andersen

The Linn County Public Health Department has been expanding its systems for monitoring and reporting on air quality across the county, including adding an additional location for its portable air quality monitors.

The Linn County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the deaths of three people who were found in an outbuilding on a property north of Robins Wednesday afternoon. A fourth person was in critical condition.

A Cedar Rapids man was sentenced Monday to 50 years in prison on a charge of second-degree murder after he fatally assaulted his 71-year-old mother in 2020.

A Cedar Rapids man was sentenced last week to 30 years in federal prison on charges that he sold methamphetamine and laundered the funds associated with the drug trafficking.

Iowa City Public Works Director Ron Knoche has worked in the city’s public works department for 25 years. This year he was named one of the national top ten public works leaders of the year by the American Public Works Association.

The body of a kayaker who went missing over a week ago in Winneshiek County was found Monday afternoon, according to a news release from the Winneshiek County Sheriff’s Office.

Eight tornadoes touched down May 21 in Iowa, the strongest being a tornado packing up to 185 mph wind gusts and carving a 44-mile path from Page to Adair counties and severely damaging Greenfield.

A 13-year-old who died last week in a UTV crash has been identified by the Iowa State Patrol.

Community members gathered together Monday morning in Solon to commemorate fallen veterans in a show of patriotism before going off to celebrate the unofficial start of summer.

Emme Quinn, 18, is one of 162 students who graduate today from Xavier High School in Cedar Rapids.

As Iowans prepared for Memorial Day and the unofficial start of summer, the Department of Natural Resources and law enforcement agencies around the state have been prepping, too. The start of boating season means extra patrols on common water recreation areas, and extra training for law enforcement and boat retailers.

NORTH LIBERTY — Construction has started to widen Interstate 380 to six lanes between Penn Street and Swan Lake Road in the North Liberty area.

A woman was bitten and attacked by a coyote Monday while walking on the University of Iowa campus. It’s the first recorded case of a coyote attacking a person in Iowa in more than 20 years, according to the Iowa Department of Natural Resources.

A Waterloo man was arrested this week on charges that he stole almost $16,000 from a North Liberty hotel while he worked as a general manager there.

An Iowa City man was arrested last week on charges that, while armed with a gun, he broke into a house and threatened to shoot someone inside.