Mike Tickal, owner of Oak Leaf Comics & Collectibles in Mason City, believes reading is fundamental, and he makes it a priority to get kids reading every day by handling out free comics at various events to entice kid to read.
The Wonderful Westside Neighborhood Association will unite a community with many immigrants. “Our goal was to have neighborhood safety, celebrate diversity, and support new people coming to Iowa,” said Mohamed Joreya, the new group’s president.
While Iowa lawmakers have passed a bill to fix a state error, leaving local governments down millions in expected revenue as they set their budgets for the 2024 fiscal year, Cedar Rapids still plans to invest in key priorities like flood control and economic development.
It’s unclear if House CO2 pipeline bill -- if it passes -- would get a hearing in the Senate.
A Cedar Rapid man and his wife had a previous run in with Devonna Walker in December and he should have known using a racial slur would provoke a violent response.
The program is projected to spend roughly $315 million annually in state funding to roughly $7,600 annual scholarships for, eventually, any Iowa student to put toward private school tuition and other education-related expenses.
Statehouse Republicans advance legislation that would add more restrictions and requirements to public assistance programs.
The Iowa Attorney General’s Office has asked the Iowa Supreme Court to review an appeals court decision that overturned a Marion man’s second-degree murder conviction for fatally stabbing Chris Bagley in 2018.
A Cedar Rapids man faces charges he bashed his brother in the head with a cigarette roller after the other brother stabbed him with a box cutter. One brother’s injuries left a blood trail outside the Linn County Courthouse and Jail.
Fifty years after Iowa began collecting and analyzing data on residents diagnosed with cancer through its Iowa Cancer Registry, statistics reveal Iowa has the second-highest cancer incidence rate in the nation and is the only state with a rising rate of cancer.
Republicans also were expected to move a ban on gender-affirming health care
Two adults were found dead Tuesday morning after deputies responded to reports of a shooting at a home on Jordans Grove Road, northeast of Marion
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