New technology is helping the UI Hygienic Laboratory officials better detect defects in pregnant women. The organization is the first state public-health laboratory in the country to use the Iowa Maternal...

The exclusion of three Iowa City elementary schools from a proposed Iowa City School District facilities-improvement plan raised concerns about neighborhood vitality among some Iowa City city councilors...

In the midst of a severe recession, UI political-science experts say President Obama will have yet another Herculean job during tonight’s prime-time economic address. “How do you get people to have...

Some homemade meals are changing with the economy, with local amateur cooks looking to drop high costs and retain the big flavors of their food favorites. On Monday evening, three women picked up new...

In October 1987, the UIHC’s Center for Advanced Reproductive Care was the first program in the state to perform in vitro fertilization. Twenty-one years later, the clinic has marked yet another achievement...

Imagine the worst smelling rotten egg. Now multiply that by 10 — and that’s the aroma at the Iowa City landfill lately. The repugnant scent — not usually found at the facility — is due in large...

DES MOINES — Iowa’s largest public-employee pension fund says $339 million in assets have been frozen pending a federal investigation into an investment broker-dealer it had ties to. The Iowa Public...

UI faculty and staff would be willing to take temporary pay cuts in order to save the jobs of their colleagues, UI Provost Wallace Loh said. “It’s the Iowa way,” Loh said. “People realize that...

Investigators believe the deaths of two individuals in a Lone Tree home this weekend were likely a murder-suicide, authorities said Monday night. Preliminary results from the Iowa assistant medical examiner...