Marissa Payne

Brenna Fall, a Cedar Rapids Public Works employee the past seven years, was tapped as the department’s director starting Wednesday.

The Cedar Rapids Community School District is launching a meal site at Johnson STEAM Academy to expand food access for households affected by the recent closure of the First Avenue Hy-Vee in a rare collaboration with area state and local government officials.

Cedar Rapids on Friday will open the city’s third dog park at 405 12th Ave. SE in the Oak Hill Jackson neighborhood.

Cedar Rapids’ quadrants have long distinguished different parts of the city, separated by the Cedar River and First Avenue. Curious Iowa investigates: How and why were the four quadrants established?

State regulators will decide the fate of Cedar Rapids casino backers’ third try for a gaming license on Feb. 6, 2025 after gathering public input and reviewing results of a study on the Linn County market.

As Kingston Yard, the new mixed-use development in Cedar Rapids, brings new residential, commercial and other uses online and generate more traffic, the city of Cedar Rapids will soon bid an estimated $20 million public parking ramp.

State regulators will commission a market study and soon consider a timeline to take applications for a Linn County gaming license after a two-year state pause on new licenses recently expired, opening the door for Cedar Rapids to try again for a casino.

Cities around Iowa turn to UNI’s Public Art Incubator for assistance with their public art collections, offering students hands-on experience as they “contribute to their communities in a real way.” Students restored two Cedar Rapids sculptures through the program this summer.

Linn County is pursuing a new approximately $19.3 million headquarters building for the Secondary Roads Department.

Jim Miller has resigned as executive director of The District: Czech Village and New Bohemia to pursue a new role within a local social services organization. His departure marks the third resignation of Cedar Rapids core district directors in the last year.

The public park at the heart of Kingston Yard, Cedar Rapids’ mixed-use development at First Street and First Avenue West, opens Wednesday with a new stage and green space. Here’s what to know about the park and inaugural performances planned on July 4.

Coralville-based Watts Group is pursuing another Cedar Rapids project in the rapidly growing southwest quadrant adding for-sale townhomes and condos to the market.

With input from bar owners, Cedar Rapids Police Chief David Dostal said police are more proactively patrolling downtown and have put in place other measures to address public safety issues around downtown bars on weekend nights. Have these steps worked?

Heaviside LLC, the development entity behind the proposed $576 million Google data center in Cedar Rapids, recently closed on land slated for the project for $16.573 million and grading is now underway on the site.

Black residents and other racial and ethnic minorities living in the Cedar Rapids metro are disproportionately underrepresented in homeownership, a recently unveiled Linn County analysis of housing inequities found. Here’s how the findings can help local officials reduce the gap.