He’s drawn comparisons to a former Hawkeye great from his head coach. He’s earned the praise of upperclassmen and been anointed the leader of a revitalized program aiming to achieve national...

Iowa basketball head coach Fran McCaffery said he wants his team to find more consistency in 2012-13. Last season produced four wins over teams ranked in the top 20, but the Hawkeyes also had a shaky nonconference...

Mark Weisman can run straight through defenders. Le’Veon Bell can jump over them. Both Iowa and Michigan State have powerful running backs on their roster, coupled with a stonewall defense boasting...

Mo Yan, a 2004 participant in the University of Iowa International Writing Program, has been awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature. Mo is best known for his 1987 novel Hong Gaoliang Jiazu (in English,...

The Iowa City Landfill and Recycling Center is encouraging local residents to recycle and donate unused Halloween costumes for their Halloween Costume Swap taking place Saturday. The Halloween Costume...

Twenty weeks. Twenty weeks into the pregnancy, with 20 weeks left, Leann and Jarod Bowman arrived at the doctor’s office in Marion for a routine ultrasound checkup. But this time, the images reflected...

The amount of sunlight beaming down on Earth in one hour is enough to provide the world’s energy consumption for an entire year. And that power from the Sun will continue to be an important part...

It was a war of attrition, with Native Americans steadily attacking and then retreating from a ravine that stretched across the battlefield. The soldiers in Fort Madison, low on rations and morale, were...

Iowa has begun the process of identifying students on the autism-spectrum after a report released by the Iowa Department of Education identified 3,102 students in the state who have confirmed autism. “This...

University of Iowa officials said the new Sustainable Citizen Program will attempt to unite students and community members in their efforts to become a more sustainable society. The program, directed...

For the past few months, the Iowa City School District has grappled with the decision of how to allocate funds. Now, it has decided. At a School Board work session Thursday night, Superintendent Steve...