Iowa City’s Senior Center will receive around $2.6 million in exterior repairs in the coming years.
The Iowa City City Council unanimously approved the project manual and cost estimate for the...
The building of the original Emma Goldman Clinic was approved to become a historic landmark during Tuesday’s Iowa City City Council meeting.
The council unanimously voted to approve the property...
The Iowa City Council approved a $100,00 financial contribution to Shelter House, a local shelter for people experiencing homelessness, to add an additional winter shelter during the coldest months...
Liam Halawith, Senior Politics and News Editor
• October 2, 2023
Mandi Remington, a local activist in the Iowa City community, is running for one of the two at-large Iowa City City Council seats ahead of the election on Nov. 7.
Remington said in an Interview...
Looking out the windows of the Senior Center, Rob Dietrich sees an empty lot surrounded by a chain link fence and full of gravel, chunks of concrete, and weeds.
Something Dietrich also sees while...
Johnson County Public Health officials cited an increase in respiratory illness, specifically, COVID-19, influenza, and respiratory syncytial virus, known as RSV, in the past weeks.
These spikes have...
Johnson County Public Health was selected as a demonstration site to receive $150,000 in funding to address vaccine equity.
The county’s designation as a demonstration site means its procedures...
After 131 dogs were rescued from a Johnson County dog breeder in August because of extremely poor living conditions, the animals were sent to shelters and rescue centers in Iowa, Michigan, and Wisconsin.
The...
Residents, especially youths in Johnson County are experiencing more mental health crises since the COVID-19 pandemic.
CommUnity’s Mobile Crisis Response program, which serves Johnson County...
In late 1964, the City of Iowa City made history as one of the first towns in Iowa to pass an anti-discrimination ordinance for housing, thanks to the newly established Human Rights Commission.
Now,...
Johnson County officials called the emergency medical technician apprenticeship that launched in June a “raving success.”
The EMT apprenticeship is the first role in the federal COVID-19 relief-funded...
More families in Johnson County could be eligible for a child care scholarship program after the county widened the income range.
The Johnson County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved an increase...
