Iowa’s second prison staff member has died from COVID-19, according to AFSCME Council 61, which represents correctional workers. AFSCME President Danny Homan was notified Saturday night a...

A man wanted in connection with a hit-and-run accident which seriously injured a 34-year-old woman faces charges in connection with the crash and a series of burglaries committed shortly before the...

IOWA CITY — Iowa City police responded to a pair of shots fired incidents last week that are believed to be related. According to a news release, around noon Friday, officers were called to...

CEDAR RAPIDS — After completing a quarantine, Sen. Chuck Grassley has returned to work in Washington. Grassley announced Nov. 17 that he had tested positive a week earlier for COVID-19. He...

A person was found dead late Monday morning when police arrived at the scene of a shooting incident in northwest Cedar Rapids. Police were dispatched at 10:54 a.m. to the 400 block of F Avenue NW...

Dozens of monuments and memorials honoring Confederate generals and the like have come down in this year of racial reckoning, and Iowa State University recently found itself among the fray with...

The number of patients being treated for COVID-19 in Iowa hospitals continued declining Sunday morning for the fifth day in a row, though that still is almost triple the number of people hospitalized...

Never believe anyone who says your vote does not count. In any election, “My vote doesn’t count” is something of a silly thing to say anyway. It’s like if you made a free...

If Johnny still wants a pair of skates from Jolly Old Saint Nicholas, a pair of entrepreneurial moms in Fairfield can help with that, through their new business, Volition Skate Co. Jen Kranz, 38, and...

IOWA CITY — Between classes at Iowa City High School and a part-time job at Culver’s, Lizzie Peters can be found at the Jet Air Flight School working toward her private pilot’s...

It’s the best of times in the worst of times. Riverside Theatre’s online production of “A Christmas Carol” is sublime. And even though pandemic protocols mean that...

DES MOINES — Iowans, for the most part, have been traveling less throughout the COVID-19 pandemic than they did at the same time last year, multiple sources of data show. But now Iowans have...

David Prowse, an English actor and competitive weightlifter who used his towering height and broad shoulders to portray the bionic body of the evil Darth Vader in the original “Star...

A man shot Saturday night in southwest Cedar Rapids was transported to a hospital with life-threatening injuries. At about 10:30 p.m., officers were dispatched to the 1000 block of Ninth Street SW...

CLINTON — Six votes. Out of more than 394,400 votes cast. That’s all that now separates the two candidates running for an open southeast Iowa congressional seat almost certainly headed...

Plowing through upper-level courses as a University of Iowa senior focused on her retail marketing major, Bella Volfson last spring was looking forward to graduation celebrations followed by a summer...

DES MOINES — After a slow start, Iowa regulators have stepped up their enforcement of public health orders on requirements for bars and restaurants during the COVID-19 pandemic, state records...

Even during a pandemic, public art prevails and proliferates. Children scampered on and around Hancher’s “Wellspring” fish sculptures in October while waiting to tour the...

After weeks of record-breaking COVID-19 hospitalizations that greatly strained capacity at health care systems across the state, local hospitals are preparing for a surge in new cases that likely...

CEDAR RAPIDS — Park Cedar Rapids, the company managing the city’s paid parking downtown, has laid off many of its employees to cope with a sharp drop in revenue because the pandemic has...