A 22-year-old Cedar Rapids man is facing felony robbery and trafficking of stolen weapons charges after Iowa City police say he robbed someone at a Kum & Go near the University of Iowa campus in the early morning hours of Oct. 3.
The state on Monday agreed to pay from its general fund nearly $400,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by University of Iowa female athletes contending Title IX violations in the UI’s announced plans last year to cut women’s swimming and diving as part of its COVID-19 response.
Iowa OSHA has fined Agri Star Meat and Poultry plant in Postville more than $28,000 for violations found after a February explosion that injured two employees.
The new catalog offers several enhancements to provide a tailored search experience to library patrons. A Zoom presentation on the new catalog will be held Thursday.
The church is offering a turkey and ham dinner for $10
Researchers surveyed more than 5,000 Iowans in small towns across the state to gauge how the COVID-19 pandemic effected them. They found while the mental health impact was greater in the smallest towns, larger communities -- including meat packing towns -- were more likely to report worsening physical health and financial strains during the pandemic.
The trails will reopen in spring 2022 when the weather allows.
Available at Cedar Valley Humane Society
The updated proposal coming before the commission on Thursday is scaled back from previous plans and devotes nearly three times more land to the park.
With policy changes to unemployment benefits yet to result in a boost to workforce numbers in Iowa, businesses continue to search for ways to fill jobs and to keep employees they already have -- many now raising wages, offering bonuses and adding perks.
Twenty years after a fire destroyed the dome of the University of Iowa’s Old Capitol, the UI now is preparing to redo “failing” gilding on the dome at an estimated cost of $480,000.
The ongoing enrollment losses Iowa’s public universities are experiencing mirror trends shaping the higher education landscape nationally – with the Board of Regent campuses since fall 2019 losing 7 percent of their total enrollment, compared with a 6.5 percent two-year drop at the national level.
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