Emily Andersen

Firefighters responded to the scene of a fire in a mixed use commercial building in southwest Cedar Rapids on Thursday afternoon. A spokesman said the building was damaged “extensively, if not catastrophically.”

Grow Therapy, a New York-based company that helps therapists with the paperwork involved in running a private practice, will be expanding to 22 new states, including Iowa.

Affordable House Network sold two low-income apartment properties in Cedar Rapids as part of a strategic plan to focus more resources on family housing, according to Four Oaks’ Debbie Craig.

The Iowa Humane Society is working with the Cedar County Sheriff’s Office to offer a $5,000 reward for anyone who can provide information that leads to the arrest of the person who shot a cat with a crossbow in October.

A Mount Vernon man was arrested this weekend on charges that he locked a woman in her own home at knife point and attempted to sexually assault her.

Mallory Huntimer and her grandfather were the first people to land at The Eastern Iowa Airport after the runway was redone in 2010. Twelve years later, she landed on the runway again as a professional airline pilot.

The Iowa Home Grant will pay to construct six new houses in Cedar Valley Habitat for Humanity’s territory, which includes Linn and Benton counties. It’s one of 16 home grants that were announced by Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds on Thursday.

Cedar Rapids Police are investigating a report that an Ingredion union worker was hit by a car while picketing Tuesday morning.

An Nebraska man was arrested in Iowa City last week on charges that he threatened a man with a gun and punched him inside his vehicle.

The Domestic Violence Intervention Program in Iowa City is hosting a gift drive through Dec. 24 that will benefit domestic violence survivors who have used the program’s services this year.

The Kirkwood Regional Center in Coralville went into lockdown for about 10 minutes Monday morning after reports of an armed robbery in the area, according to an alert sent to Kirkwood students Monday.

The Linn County Sheriff’s Office will use the $1.7 million it was rewarded in the second round of ARPA funding to add 12-14 medical isolation cells to the Linn County Jail, which should help mitigate the spread of COVID-19 in the jail.

One person was killed in an ATV crash in Delaware County Wednesday, according to an Iowa State Patrol crash report.

A Cedar Rapids man was arrested Wednesday on charges that he sexually abused three children over a period of several years.

Food pantries are used to seeing ebbs and flows in the demand for their services, but in the last few years that demand has been growing consistently, and some Cedar Rapids food banks are struggling to keep up.