The Hot Cider Hustle Half Marathon and 5K is returning to Cedar Rapids in a few weeks and local nonprofit Families Helping Families – which is organizing volunteers for the race – still needs dozens of volunteers.
Donna Parsons – who spent 33 years at the UI before her untimely passing, earning bachelor’s and master’s degrees in music and then a doctorate before joining the staff as a lecturer on popular music and culture – saw her large lectures gain legendary status, filling up in hours and forming wait lists.
The general obligation bond would provide funding for the next step in the district’s master facility plan, which includes secondary schools.
The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is hoping to give a claw up to one of Iowa’s most elusive -- and most threatened -- turtle species by head-starting two Blanding’s turtles at the University of Northern Iowa.
A Cedar Rapids man who fatally shot Wayne Jones in 2019 over an argument about cigarettes faces up to 30 years in prison. He pleaded to voluntary manslaughter and other charges this week.
Vulgar comments and slurs. Political favoritism in hiring and contracts. Secretly recorded and eavesdropped conversations.
County Attorney Jerry Vander Sanden announced his retirement at the end of the calendar year earlier this week
Some urge accountability in city’s use of tax increment financing.
The upper-level University of Northern Iowa students who last week experienced the “unnecessary stress and anxiety” of losing their specialized Plant Systematics professor as part of his discipline for mandating masks want their money back.
“Today we are in the midst of a gathering storm against democracy,” Krause said, charging Republicans are setting the stage for a slow-motion legal coup in 2022 and 2024.
Linn County Public Health has been awarded a $1.25 million five-year grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to address violence impacting adolescents and teens in the community.
Pfizer asked the U.S. government Thursday to allow use of its COVID-19 vaccine in children ages 5 to 11 — and if regulators agree, shots could begin within a matter of weeks.
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