Bike riders have joined in a ride around Cedar Rapids on Labor Day for 13 of the past 15 years. The ride was not held in 2008 after the flood or 2020 because of the derecho. And organizers have canceled this year’s ride because of COVID-19.
Volunteer labor and fundraising turn 1891 depot into an events center.
They came for a Herbert Hoover birthday event in 1965, the year after Hoover, the only president born in Iowa, died
A gun battle in the Cedar Rapids Carnegie library ends in death for an officer.
The key to taller corn — and better yields — is planting early and controlling weeds, most farmers say.
The 54-year-old Cedar Rapids school, at 6225 First Ave. SW, has structural problems and will be replaced with West Willow Elementary this fall.
A.B.T. Moore led Gideons in early 1900s when they began placing Bibles in hotel rooms. His pastor, Dr. E.R. Burkhalter, pitched the idea.
Shooting of students and an unpopular war in Vietnam led to unrest at University of Iowa, other Iowa colleges
Schoolchildren in Eastern Iowa in the 1930s into the 1960s often got to visit places or experience events that are …
Jean Adeline Morgan Wanatee — whose last name is now attached to a Linn County park and creek — was …
It was a Saturday – March 2, 1935 – that the Cedar Rapids Gazette reported artists Grant Wood and Sara …
Passion Plays – the dramatic representations of the suffering, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ – began in medieval Europe …
Any tour of Grant Wood-related sites in Iowa would be woefully incomplete without a visit to the Cherry Building in …
Phyllis Fleming spent 45 years working in The Gazette’s newsroom, most of that in leadership positions, before retiring in 2002. …
A group of seven Iowa Hawkeye fans from Cedar Rapids started a nonprofit in 1979, the Iowa Hawkeye Rebounders Ltd., …
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