A national semiconductor design and manufacturing company wants a new 65,000 square-foot office facility in Cedar Rapids. This proposed space is expected to create 22 jobs and retain 142 jobs that pay in the six-figure range.
The library’s mask mandate begins Monday
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The blood services provider ImpactLife will require all employees in Iowa, Illinois, Missouri and Wisconsin to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by Nov. 1. Religious and medical exemptions will be considered, officials say.
In response to a federal complaint from University of Northern Iowa’s faculty union accusing the UNI administration of prohibiting COVID safety measures, a state health and safety official pointed to Iowa’s law barring mask mandates.
Order requires masks in all courthouses across the state, regardless of an individual’s vaccination status.
As new coronavirus cases surge, local public health agencies are working to ramp up their contact tracing efforts. But officials say those efforts have already been strained in recent weeks as the delta variant drives an alarming spike in infections.
Cedar Rapids man who hid multiple drugs in a Crown Royal bag tucked in his crotch area was sentenced to 3 years in federal prison.
A woman driving on I Avenue NE on Thursday evening told police she was shot at by someone in another vehicle. No injuries were reported.
The leader of the Iowa Board of Parole wants to eliminate crowding at Iowa’s nine prisons over the next two years.
A Chicago man living in Iowa City in 2019 was sentenced to over eight years in federal prison for distributing marijuana and possessing firearms.
American Legion Road — which is what Muscatine Avenue becomes east of Scott Boulevard — is in the first phase of a $9 million project to include a rebuilt road with dedicated bike lanes, 10-foot sidewalk on the north side and an underpass for students to get to Hoover Elementary School.
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