IOWA CITY — The vast majority of recently surveyed University of Iowa students say they’re likely to wear masks in public when they return to campus this fall. But most are less...

Linn County reported 59 new coronavirus cases in a 24-hour period ending at 11 a.m. Sunday, marking its second-highest daily new case total the novel coronavirus appeared in Iowa in March. That...

Anyone else can talk all they want about Luka Garza being the heavy preseason favorite for 2020-21 men’s college basketball National Player of the Year awards, but Garza said he’s looking...

A father was shot and killed at his son’s visitation Saturday at Weerts Funeral Home, Davenport, police said. Officers provided few other details. Possibly connected to the incident is...

DES MOINES — Standing on steps at the Iowa State Capitol grounds, socially distanced and wearing their white lab coats and face masks, roughly two dozen medical and public health professionals...

Linn County passed 2,000 total COVID-19 positive cases Saturday, with 29 new cases for the 24-hour period as of 11 a.m., for a total of 2,008. Overall, Iowa had 461 new cases, totaling 44,936, and...

Mary Anning made one of the most fascinating discoveries of her life — a discovery that changed science as we know it — when she was just a young girl. Now, thanks to local...

In the midst of this trying time, I am looking for books that can give us all hope. Hope because of the care and the passion that went into their creation, hope because they remind us that we can do...

Q. I saw on social media that some people are receiving unsolicited seeds in the mail. Is this a real thing? A: Yes, it is. We heard from the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship and...

IOWA CITY — The arraignment of two brothers charged in the fatal shooting last Christmas of a 30-year-old Iowa City man will be delayed. Elijah McAbee, 18, is charged with first-degree murder,...

CEDAR RAPIDS — At the duck house at Bever Park in Cedar Rapids, something rare happened this year: one of the canvasback ducks in the park’s Old MacDonald’s Farm duck exhibit...

CEDAR RAPIDS — Police are investigating a robbery reported Thursday night near Noelridge Park. A woman told police she was walking on the roadway near Noelridge Park, in the 4700 block of Golf...

Iowans started 2020 during a historic Iowa caucus season and we’re heading toward a historic general election in November. In between, there has been an infectious disease pandemic and a mass...

CEDAR RAPIDS — Students in prekindergarten through eighth grade at Xavier Catholic Schools of Cedar Rapids and Marion will return to on-site learning, and high school students will attend a...

CEDAR RAPIDS — The Cedar Rapids Community School District announced its final return to learn plan Friday, which includes options of in-person learning for elementary and middle school...

State Rep. Ashley Hinson, Republican candidate for the U.S. House in Iowa’s First District, is a plagiarist. According to the New York Times digital edition on July 20, 2020, Hinson’s...

In a time when racial prejudice and widespread social inequities are finally being acknowledged as unacceptable, I want to draw attention to a kind of systemic injustice we have gotten used to in...

CEDAR RAPIDS — The city Civil Service Commission will hold the appeal hearing for fired Cedar Rapids police Officer Lucas Jones entirely online in August despite objections from his attorney,...

Iowa reported 11 additional deaths due to COVID-19 at 11 a.m. Friday, the most in a 24-hour period since July 15. There have been 865 coronavirus-related deaths in the state since the start of the...

CEDAR RAPIDS — The Murphy USA station in southwest Cedar Rapids has been reduced to a pile of rubble in preparation for a major upgrade and expansion. The El Dorado, Ark., company will replace...