The Buy Nothing Project, described as the world’s largest gift economy, allows neighbors in communities around the world to share things they no longer need or have in surplus. Items are given freely with no money, no bartering and no strings attached.
Marion’s Mary Komisar completed an 18-year journey to visit every stadium in the NFL in 2021.
Two white Cedar Rapids parents have earned love and responded to criticism in the adoption of their Black child as their TikTok following climbed. Now, they have a book deal and run social media as a full-time job.
With fewer of them since the pandemic began, hospice volunteers in Eastern Iowa listen to the stories that many don’t hear in the final stages of people’s lives.
Iowa music man Bob Dorr reflects on turning 70, spending 50 years on Iowa Public Radio and 45 years leading bands.
The U.S. figure skating championship pair Ashley Cain-Gribble and Cedar Rapids native Timothy LeDuc are going to the Beijing Olympics. That means LeDuc, who identifies as nonbinary, will become the first openly nonbinary Winter Olympian.
‘The glue that brings a community together,’ Kathy Waychoff has spent a lifetime connected to volunteerism.
Over the last decade, Sean Keller has forged a new barbecue tradition unique to Iowa with all the hickory smoke but none of the mystery that legendary flavors are often shrouded in.
After owning the one-millionth Thunderbird manufactured by Ford Motor Co. for 36 years, Bob Peterson is donating it to the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, Calif.
As the Cedar Rapids Public Library celebrates 125 years, patrons can see the library’s history and evolution on display starting Jan. 15.
Cedar Rapids author turns therapy dog’s journey into children’s book, “Meet Mali the Therapy Dog.”
Holiday light show dances around rural Walker cul-de-sac.
After 56 years, Heidi Kersten will unplug her family’s assortment of life-size, homemade Christmas displays for the last time.
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