Mohamed Ahmed, who immigrated to the U.S. 13 years ago, had traveled to Khartoum from Cedar Rapids to attend his father’s funeral. Fighting between military factions damaged and closed the Khartoum airport before he could fly home.
Another eight Cedar Rapids parks are slated to be revamped with community garden plots over the coming years as a step toward expanding access to healthy food and advancing climate action across the city.
The Iowa Senate passed a budget Tuesday that could zero out funding for river and stream sensors that measure nitrate and phosphorus to see if conservation practices are working.
One of Iowa’s most generous and notable philanthropists -- gracing the name of various buildings including the University of Iowa’s John Pappajohn Business Building -- has died.
The two are accused in the killing of Mohamed Tawfik on Jan. 8 in Cedar Rapids.
Local embroiderers’ guild showcasing 500 hand-stitched projects
Linn County is seeking feedback by May 5 on committees’ work to review county code governing utility-scale solar projects before the Board of Supervisors considers any potential new solar applications.
Fate of property tax relief, loosening child labor laws and gun law is still up in the air.
A Linn County jury finds a Cedar Rapids man guilty of a lesser charge, voluntary manslaughter, for beating 22-year-old woman with a metal rod. Prosecutor says this was a ‘brutal and unjustified“ killing.
Also, Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird said she has no update on her review of a state policy to reimburse sexual assault victims for contraception.
Gov. Kim Reynolds, who has made restrictions on transgender youth a priority this year, on Monday used Twitter to promote a pack of koozies that label herself and three other female Republican governors as “real women of politics,” in an apparent parody of Bud Light cans that feature transgender social media influencer Dylan Mulvaney.
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