Vanessa Miller

Speaking to Iowa’s surging need for affordable housing to help meet its growing workforce demands, Gov. Kim Reynolds on Wednesday announced a new $100 million allocation to increase the state’s housing stock and protect Iowans’ ability to live in or near the communities in which they work.

Iowa’s Board of Regents – denied any state funding increase for its public universities in the last legislative session – is requesting a $15 million bump to its higher education appropriations for the next budget year.

With little discussion and much praise for the project – which struggled to get the state go-ahead it needs – Iowa’s Board of Regents on Tuesday unanimously approved construction on a new $395 million University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics site in North Liberty to start as soon as later this month.

Hawkeye football being back also meant fans were grilling, playing lawn games and shopping at Melrose Avenue vendors.

After 46 years of coffee service from men and women with disabilities – starting with Bill Sackter in 1975 – the University of Iowa’s “Will Bill’s Coffee Shop” has brewed its final cup.

The Board of Regents has called a special meeting for next week to consider giving the go-ahead to start construction.

Search warrant details steps taken by Iowa City police to investigate allegations in 2020

With the University of Iowa about to make good on its promise to resume in-person Hawkeye football this fall, campus administrators Thursday issued messages promoting COVID precautions and general good fan behavior heading into the weekend.

Protesters demanding University of Iowa administrators kick the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity off campus took to the streets again Wednesday night – this time avoiding vandalism and sticking to chants, marching, and signs carrying the message they won’t stand for sexual violence.

The group claimed in social media promotions that two members of Phi Gamma Delta are “getting away with sexual assault.”

A new $230 million University of Iowa Health Care facility will be built in North Liberty after a state council Tuesday reversed a prior decision, approving the project to proceed.

Arguing no one disputes how University of Iowa Health Care for years paid employees overtime and for working extra shifts, the thousands of past and present workers suing UIHC’s governing Board of Regents recently asked a federal judge to decide the case without further delay via “summary judgment.”

The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics’ second try to get a state certificate it needs to build a new $230 million facility off Interstate 380 is getting a second round of pushback just as the five-member State Health Facilities Council prepares to reconsider the project this week.

In response to a federal complaint from University of Northern Iowa’s faculty union accusing the UNI administration of prohibiting COVID safety measures, a state health and safety official pointed to Iowa’s law barring mask mandates.

For the second time, Iowa State University has exceeding its “Forever True, For Iowa State” fundraising campaign goal by bringing in $1.542 billion by June 30 — thanks to 532,377 gifts from more than 96,000 donors.