Though University of Iowa police said they are working to improve the HawkAlert system, the university keeps no records of previously issued alerts. And UI spokesman Tom Moore said there is no "operational...

Iowa caucus hopeful Herman Cain's 9-9-9 plan would put a sales tax on basic food items in Iowa and Johnson County, where no such tax now exists. Cristi Gleason, a University of Iowa accounting associate...

A recent increase in the number of patients seeking treatment at Veterans Affairs hospitals locally and nationwide may mean backups at those facilities, one expert said Wednesday. Valerie Buckingham,...

Campus environmentalists delivered a petition with 2,500 signatures to President Sally Mason's office on Wednesday, urging the University of Iowa administration to curb the school's coal use sooner than...

Megan Schwalm-Bell loves her son's hair. It's thick, black, and curly. But the white mother — who adopted her 15-month-old black son, Maddox, soon after he was born — promptly discovered not everyone...