The Iowa City City Council approved the liquor license for the Summit Restaurant and Bar, 10 S. Clinton St., under a new owner on Tuesday. The application for a license was filled by Christopher "Topher"...

The Iowa City City Council granted a liquor license to a new restaurant set to open in the former location of 808. Co-owners of Atlas and Jimmy Jack's, James Adrien and Jack Piper, are set to open Basta,...

Iowa City police are investigating a robbery reported over the weekend. According to a press release, an adult woman told officers she had her purse stolen Sunday while on the 400 block of East College...

Iowa City police reportedly Tasered a local man after he fought with officers, who found him with a "fantasy sword." Deandre Lamar Irby, 19, 737 Michael St. Apt. 51, was charged April 29 with...

Coralville police arrested an area woman after her daughter reported she had allegedly given her drugs, and tried to cover up the evidence. Victoria Michelle Eckwall, 32, Coralville, was charged April...

One warm spring Saturday morning, Bennett Luthje bends over his notebook, working on math problems in his makeshift classroom — a tiny room in the basement of Zion Lutheran Church. Sitting between two...

Those caught in a bar underage are one step closer to seeing lower fines for their first offense. The Iowa City City Council barely passed the first consideration for a tiered fine system with a 4-3 vote...

Iowa City City Manager Tom Markus said officials aren't trying to push University of Iowa students out of downtown — they would instead like to simply add more permanent residents. Markus spoke to a...

Uday Sukhatme, the executive vice chancellor of academic affairs and dean of faculties at Indiana University/Purdue University in Indianapolis, is the third and final candidate for the University of Iowa...

Nick Pearce could never understand why his elementary-school classmates were so curious about his parents, particularly their sexual orientation. "Someone would ask me, 'You have a mom and a mom?...

The Iowa City City Council unanimously passed an amendment Tuesday night that would require landlords to make tenant rights information more readily available to students and first-time renters. The Tuesday...

Summer Schoop stayed up all night Sunday to watch President Obama inform the world about the slaying of Osama bin Laden. The University of Iowa junior, who is studying abroad in Seville, Spain, said she...