My house brimmed with adolescent boys when I was a mullet-sporting 8-year-old. (Sadly, my mother thought it was an endearing look. She always loved the ’80s.) I have three older brothers, Tom, Joe,...

With 52 seconds on the clock, 67 yards to the end zone, and the game tied at 24, Iowa head coach Kirk Ferentz made the unpopular decision to swallow his remaining time-out and play for overtime against...

The Iowa City City Council voted 5-1 in favor of implementing a franchise fee on Tuesday. The vote was the council’s second consideration of the fee; it needs one more vote before the fee passes. The...

Janet Schlapkohl is producing young starlets every day — growing pains included. Monday’s life lesson: dancing the waltz. Schlapkohl, 52, founded City High’s “Combined Efforts Community Drama,”...

In the middle of mostly white Iowa, UI officials are hoping to attract students with some diverse thinking. Beginning in the spring of 2010, the university will be the first school in the Big Ten to offer...

Greg Schmidt furiously scrubs his hands and forearms as his research assistant, Vickie LeGare, watches with a hint of impatience. The duo from the Iowa Lions Eye Bank in Iowa City is about to prepare...

Iowa City legislators and local women’s health advocates say they are infuriated by an addition to the House health-care bill that would restrict access to abortion coverage in the private insurance...

Will Ingles’ bookstore was built in 1859, when the building was used as a stagecoach layover station and later as a Pony Express station. But now city officials are planning a renovation project in...

A group of 40 middle-schoolers spoke out on Tuesday about what news stories they find most important, giving priority to hard news about domestic events, politics, and science. Unfazed by catchy slogans...

Faculty could find their time more strictly regulated under a new policy the UI Faculty Council considered on Tuesday. A change in the Post-Tenure Effort Allocation Policy would give UI deans the power...

UI Faculty Senate members learned Tuesday that faculty would be subject to the same change in the vesting policy as staff if officials approve the plan. The proposal, known as cliff vesting, would annul...

The UI Admissions Office has seen a spike in applications from last year, with the majority coming from students outside Iowa, officials said. The UI has received around 1,500 more applications this year...