A man was reportedly robbed Monday morning. According to police reports, officers took a report of an armed robbery around 2 p.m. The robbery had allegedly occurred at about 9:45 a.m. in the area of Hollywood...

Iowa City police said they received a report of a purse snatching at 1:05 p.m. on Tuesday. According to police, the female victim said a black male approached her asking for a cigarette while she exited...

Iowa City police have identified the man found under the Highway 6 bridge Monday. Mark Benjamin Brown, 49, was homeless and last known to have stayed in Iowa City. Police said a passerby on the bike...

The Iowa Water and Land Legacy amendment passed Tuesday with a vote of 76 percent in favor of the amendment and 24 opposed. The constitutional amendment will create a trust fund by putting money toward...

U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley easily won re-election Tuesday night over Democratic challenger Roxanne Conlin. Grassley won 63 percent of the vote; Conlin earned merely 34 percent. A poll released early this...

Terry Branstad is back in the governor’s seat. The Republican candidate will return to the position for his fifth term after an 11-year hiatus. Democratic incumbent Chet Culver called Branstad to...

Last year, the small Zambian village of Libuyu needed a bridge in order to access the only school in the area without having to walk several miles around a dangerous river. But they didn’t have the...

Iowa City schools are getting redirected, tech style. Because of budget cuts and position vacancies, the Iowa City Community School District has been without a director of technology for the past few...

Rep. Dave Loebsack, D-Iowa, beat his Republican challenger by 6 percentage points Tuesday in what was expected to be a dead-heat race. With 300 of 313 precincts reporting at midnight, Loebsack had secured...

Two years. That’s how long the 21-ordinance will be in place. At the very least. And in that time, no one can touch it — not city councilors, not students, not residents. According to the city code,...

A record number of Johnson County voters cast their ballots on Tuesday for a midterm election. Johnson County Auditor Tom Slockett reported a nearly 58 percent turnout rate, with 53,512 of 92,610 registered...

Three Iowa Supreme Court justices are out. In a historic Tuesday vote, whose margin grew wider as the night wore on, a little more than half of Iowa citizens voted not to retain all three justices. David...