Living

Wandering through Shrine of the Grotto of the Redemption in West Bend, Iowa, is a religious experience. It’s often referred to as the “Eighth Wonder of the World.”

Instead of carrying hatred in their hearts, my grandparents were able to find compassion, even love, for the boy who killed their son while driving drunk, knowing his life was also forever changed.

Mazie is a 9-month-old female bulldog/pit bull mix available for adoption at Cedar Rapids Animal Care & Control.

Anne Harris Carter has been hired as the first-ever health equity manager at Linn County Public Health. The daughter of Dr. Percy and Lileah Harris, Carter will focus on addressing systematic barriers to health equity, such as racism and poverty, that community members face.

The public will being seeing seedlings as post-derecho plans take root at the historic Cedar Rapids Brucemore estate.

A Coe College graduate who was the first in his Afghan village to learn how to read and write has spent the past 20 years supporting a school in his native country — one that educates girls as well as boys.

The name “Stephen Norman” may not ring a bell around Eastern Iowa, but plenty have known and loved him by his radio name, Ric Swann. Swann, for years part of Cedar Rapids' KZIA radio’s Schulte & Swann morning team, died of cancer early Wednesday in Ohio. He was 62.

But women are about twice as likely as men to be affected by depression, generalized anxiety and panic disorders as they battle for equal wages, access to political positions or corporate leadership roles and general equal treatment across society.