Marking its highest requested state funding increase in nearly a decade, Iowa’s Board of Regents is seeking $34.7 million more in education appropriations from the Legislature for the next budget year – due, in part, to soaring inflation.
The Cedar Rapids Police Department is investigating a shots fired incident that happened in the 300 block of 16th Street SE Monday night, according to a news release from the department.
This year, people entering the corn maze at Bloomsbury Farm may have to take a trip around the sun to get out.
Orchestra has had five directors in past 100 years
A lack of snowfall this past winter was likely a boon for Iowa pheasants, which were seen in roughly equal numbers as last year by state officers for their recent annual population survey.
Pruning away dried up programs, degrees, and academic centers while reframing, reformatting, or fashioning anew majors and curricular opportunities meeting student and employer demands is becoming increasingly imperative for institutions vying to attract and retain students from a shrinking pool of applicants.
To make the most of a disaster scenario and pave a path for a strong recovery, Iowa city leaders say they must uplift the businesses that keep the community’s economic wheels turning. Here’s how some have turned adversity into opportunity.
The new program manager for Foundation 2 emergency youth shelter came back to where she started her social work career. Shelby Holsapple enjoys connecting with kids and helping them learn to advocate for themselves.
The Cedar Rapids stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is launching the Rescuing Our Roots project to photograph and document 20,000 Iowa headstones starting Sept. 10 and finishing Memorial Day 2023.
Four beehives are kept just behind the Anchor Center for Women in Cedar Rapids, where the bees are raised and cared for by the center’s residents. The Anchor Center is a rehabilitative center for women on their way out of the criminal justice system.
The summer Freedom School program for kids is being expanded to help students continue to achieve higher academically
School leaders detail innovative ways they have been working to close the achievement gap that grew during the pandemic
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