CEDAR RAPIDS — A former Cedar Rapids schools custodian was convicted Thursday of sexually abusing a 14-year-old girl over a one-year period and faces up to 40 years in prison. Michael Lynn...

Pleasant Creek State Recreation Area near Palo this week reopened its campground, cabins and shelters — just in time for the last weekend of peak camping season — but the lodge and...

Iowa saw its fourth-highest jump of confirmed coronavirus cases in a single day on Thursday according to data analyzed by The Gazette. Across the state, 1,242 new virus cases were reported in the...

IOWA CITY — The City of Iowa City is one step closer to hiring its next police chief. The city’s civil service commission on Thursday unanimously certified the hiring of Lt. Dustin...

Emergency responders called to a rollover crash and subsequent vehicle fire early Thursday morning on Interstate 380 south of Cedar Rapids did not find any victims at the scene but soon after found a...

CEDAR RAPIDS — Lucas Jones portrayed himself Wednesday as a sacrificial lamb, asserting during a city hearing that the timing of his termination from the Cedar Rapids Police Department...

MARION — A 4-year-old child was hospitalized after being struck by a vehicle Wednesday in Marion. Emergency responders were called to the 2300 block of 31st Street in Marion at 4:20 p.m.,...

Iowa City’s Bo James bar is among six businesses cited for violating the Iowa governor’s Aug. 27 order closing bars in six Iowa counties. Iowa’s Alcoholic Beverages Division...

IOWA CITY — Despite a massive drop in patients, surgeries and visits around last spring’s arrival of COVID-19 to Iowa, numbers have rebounded at Iowa’s only academic medical...

It’s not the names on the ballot. The 2020 election is about health care and finishing the Obamacare “starter home” he helped build, according to former U.S. Sen. Tom...

DES MOINES — Democrat Theresa Greenfield said Wednesday she wants more federal help for Iowans battling the COVID-19 pandemic, including direct payments to individuals and businesses, extended...

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MARION — When Rehmat Ullah opened New York Gyro in Marion in February, business was slow for the first couple of weeks. Then the coronavirus pandemic hit Iowa, restaurants in Iowa temporarily...

As kids, many of us had that huckster friend who wanted to flip a coin for the last slice of pizza, the first turn at a video game or the next game of pool. “Heads I win, tails you...

DES MOINES — Expecting a large volume of absentee ballots as many people avoid in-person voting during the pandemic, Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate is seeking emergency authority from...

IOWA CITY — The Iowa City Community School District will work with Design Engineers of Cedar Rapids on its climate action plan, which includes increasing the district’s use of renewable...

Sen. Chuck Grassley paid tribute to Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg as a “really outstanding jurist” whose work as an attorney, judge and justice “is leaving a...

Sen. Chuck Grassley is urging the U.S. Treasury to be more aggressive in pushing coronavirus relief funds into the economy to offset the impact of pandemic. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said...

IOWA CITY — The resurrection of Big Ten football — even in a limited capacity, with a truncated schedule and no fan revenue — could shave tens of millions off an anticipated $75...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky grand jury brought no charges against Louisville police for the killing of Breonna Taylor during a drug raid gone wrong, with prosecutors saying Wednesday two...