The Johnson County Board of Supervisors on Thursday unanimously approved the county's fiscal 2013 budget. The budget will total $84,208,573. Countywide taxes increased by $1,047,456. Residential property...

School officials plan to shake up elementary boundaries for the 2013-14 school year, but local parents say details about those plans are scarce. District officials hosted a public forum on the boundary...

Police officials note that shoplifting charges are on the rise, though they believe this is little reason for concern. In 2011, the Iowa City police saw 348 cases of shoplifting, up almost 70 from the...

MidAmerican Energy officials say a electric-rate increase is necessary to keep up with rising energy-production costs, but that didn't do much to soothe locals' concerns Thursday night. Officials from...

Navi Bajwa took his studies to the United Kingdom because he wanted to immerse himself in the political and social atmosphere. "The reason I went to the University of Edinburgh is because of the...