A bipartisan group of Minnesota lawmakers is putting forth legislation to legalize the growth of cannabis, or hemp. The Industrial Hemp Development Act (HF 608) would provide licenses to qualified farmers...

Deidre Freeman didn’t know where her future stood in diving four years ago. Growing up in Grinnell, she displayed all the poise and agility needed to become a diver, but she didn’t start the sport...

The weather was sunny, around 80 degrees. The course was very forgiving with wide fairways and flat greens. However, it wasn’t Iowa’s time to excel. Before entering the Eagle Landing Invitational,...

Tom Brands is not big on superstition, nor are his wrestlers. Whether it’s a uniform change, a pre-match ritual, even a select pair of socks, the Hawkeye wrestlers rarely lose their focus on the big...

The Iowa men’s basketball team was like a wet matchbook during Big Ten play this season. For every rare game with just enough spark to ignite a fire under the Hawkeyes, there were several that saw Iowa...

Manny Harris sat on the bench for the first minute in overtime. You figured he was hurt or that Michigan head coach John Beilein was going to work his star into the game somehow. But Harris, an All-Big...

Iowa City authorities are discussing how to spend almost $200,000 expected to be granted to the police through the federal Edward Byrne Justice Assistance Grant Program. Though city officials still need...

Ahmed Al Zahrani’s family still enjoy home-cooked meals at least twice a day since moving to Iowa City eight months ago. But grocery shopping more than once a week can be painful for the family from...

All overflow inmates from Johnson County Jail will now be taken to Marshall County Jail — a move that will make it easier to track inmates and could save the county hundreds of thousands of dollars annually. The...

Through the myriad topics covered in Wednesday’s open forum about revisions to the UI’s sexual-harassment policy, one thread bound the responses together: to be proactive rather than reactive. “We...

With more than 10,000 hits and 237 submissions and counting, the UI budget website has been receiving cost-shaving suggestions ranging from sacrificing landscaping and fixing leaky faucets to cutting salaries...

UI junior and English major Cathryn Spinler had dreams of breaking into the publishing industry. But with the current economy, jobs and internships in the field are hard to come by. So the 21-year-old...