Breaking school records isn’t enough for decathlete Dan Rolling. He has to obliterate them. “Both of them are kind of bittersweet,” the senior said. “I would have liked to smash them more than...

In front of 12 silent fifth-graders in the depths of a dense forest just outside Iowa City, Meredith Caskey let out a mellow blue-jay call on a clear morning last week. Caskey and the students quickly...

Officials will reapply for federal funding for a rail line between Iowa City and Chicago after Gov. Chet Culver signed legislation on Monday setting aside $6.5 million for the project. Plans for the railway...

Graduate students are at a standstill on a move that would remove restrictions from travel grants. The University of Iowa Executive Council of Graduate and Professional Students was unable to reach a...

Recently arrested University of Iowa students were not permanently removed from the residence halls or expelled from the university despite previous drug charges on campus. The UI’s “one strike”...

Stephen Murley will lead the Iowa City School District as its newest superintendent. School Board members announced they had chosen Murley, from Wausau, Wis., from a pool of three candidates at their...

Iowa City panhandlers could soon face more restrictions, barring them from soliciting in certain areas downtown. An ordinance before the Iowa City City Council, which the council voted 6-1 in favor of...

The University of Iowa is becoming an excellent place to study women’s health, some say. And the National Institutes of Health recently agreed, awarding the UI a $2.2 million grant to establish the...

OTTUMWA, Iowa — Green jobs will be a key to economic recovery across the country, President Obama said during a visit to Iowa on Tuesday. The president returned to the state after visiting the UI campus...

Proposed changes to the University of Iowa’s sexual-harassment policy aren’t fair to alleged violators, some faculty members said. Members of the UI Faculty Senate expressed concerns at their meeting...