The library has lost three leaders as some city residents complained about LGBTQ books, books about Biden and Harris
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The library has lost three leaders as some city residents complained about LGBTQ books, books about Biden and Harris
Emergency responders are searching for a girl who went into the Cedar River and who was identified Thursday morning by the Linn County Sheriff’s Office as 11-year-old Zyah Thomas.
The closure comes as Linn County is seeing high transmission rates of the virus again
Two Maryland artists have worked on two murals in Cedar Rapids’ Time Check neighborhood, beautifying one of the areas in town that was hit hardest by the 2008 flood.
Certified teacher added to the 10-week summer school program this year to help address K-5 graders gaps in reading and math.
Iowa has no extreme risk protection order law, wherein law enforcement, family members or others can seek a court order to temporarily prevent someone deemed a threat from buying or possessing firearms.
Multiple agencies, including the Iowa State Patrol and Linn County Rescue, remained at the scene searching the river as of Wednesday night,
LE MARS, Iowa (AP) — An explosion Wednesday morning destroyed two houses in the northwest Iowa city of Le Mars and injured three people.
Both of Iowa’s Republican U.S. Senators say abortion regulations should be decided by individual states
The day the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade – upending nearly 50 years of precedent by finding no constitutional right to an abortion exists – University of Iowa President Barbara Wilson emailed the UI community asking that the campus remains “a place for open and respectful discussion of differences.”
After four weeks of stable case counts, the number of new COVID-19 cases jumped 30 percent in Iowa in the past week compared to the week before. Statewide hospitalizations also increased, according to new state and federal coronavirus data released Wednesday.
Bolstered by tens of millions in federal stimulus and COVID aid, both of Iowa’s public research universities busted external funding records in fiscal 2022 – by $49 million at the University of Iowa and $42.6 million at Iowa State University.
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