Governor says numbers likely to grow after massive fireball erupts at company’s global aviation hub in Louisville
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Governor says numbers likely to grow after massive fireball erupts at company’s global aviation hub in Louisville
A collaborative of area health care providers and Linn County social service agencies is exploring the feasibility of creating a street medicine team to help deliver health care to the unhoused.
Cedar Rapids City Council members later this month will vote on whether to direct $25,000 to an area food bank.
Iowa GOP Congerssman Randy Feenstra, newly in the 2026 Iowa governor’s race, toured a Cedar Rapids food pantry Tuesday as the federal shutdown halts food aid for thousands of Iowans. Feenstra praised local “neighbors helping neighbors,” defended his campaign rollout, and said he’ll debate his Republican rivals while urging Congress to reopen the government.
Grassley and Reynolds honored the late Dick Cheney for his life in public service.
A Lincoln, Iowa man was arrested Tuesday on charges that he attempted to groom someone who he believed was 15 years old to have sex with him.
The second of two juveniles who were arrested Friday after a shooting in Cedar Rapids has been identified after being charged with a felony.
Two months after delaying the timeline of its new $2 billion inpatient tower, citing federal health care-related funding cuts, University of Iowa Health Care next week will ask the Board of Regents to approve $45.5 million in facilities upgrades across its three inpatient hospital campuses.
Live coverage of November 4, 2025 election day in Linn and Johnson County, Iowa
The first of two finalists to succeed Iowa State University President Wendy Wintersteen is Benjamin Houlton, dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University, where he holds rank as an ecology and evolutionary biology professor and co-chairs a “Climate Initiative” aimed at “mobilizing practical climate change solutions.”
Gordon Lightfoot’s surprise 1976 hit immortalized the Great Lakes shipwreck that happened 50 years ago this month.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Dick Cheney, the hard-charging conservative who became one of the most powerful and polarizing vice presidents in U.S. history and a leading advocate for the invasion of Iraq, has died at age 84.
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