About one out of every three dollars the federal government spends is borrowed.
That's troubling to the pack of Republican Iowa caucus contenders, but some scholars say the U.S. debt crisis isn't so...
Increasing tuition and cutting back state appropriations may affect the presence of young people in Iowa's workforce.
That's according to Regent Robert Downer, speaking during the state Board of Regents...
Johnson County supervisors said they believe county residents would seize an opportunity to invest in private wind turbines if obtaining them was made easier.
Officials said the technology is capable...
Lying against the white, snowy earth, Brian Fuhrmeister joked with his 5-year-old son while preparing to chop down the family's ideal Christmas tree.
"All right, Lukas. I'm going to cut down the...
The University of Iowa spends less on providing legal advice to students than any school in the Big Ten.
Greg Bal, supervising attorney for UI Student Legal Services, said he doesn't think adding a...
Iowa City police arrested a local man after he allegedly hit his pregnant girlfriend in the stomach.
Curtis Lee Brown, 36, 1037 Cross Park Apt. A, was charged Nov. 29 with third-offense domestic-abuse...
Iowa City police charged a local man after he allegedly hit a person with a golf club after one of his PlayStation Portable games was stolen.
Cartis Lamonte Washington, 32, 1231 Sandusky Drive, was...
The need for winter clothes typically grows as cold weather moves in, and a local family resource specialist says demand from families in need is greater than usual this year.
Kris Mowatt, who works...
University of Iowa students might soon be able to opt into a "green" fee to fund sustainability efforts on campus.
Hinging on student approval, the UI may join 87 schools across the country...
The University of Iowa officials support recently released federal guidelines that would allow colleges to take ethnicity into account in admissions.
The guidelines, published earlier this month by...
The U.S. Department of Education could take a major hit if any of the Iowa caucus candidates are elected in 2012.
Four candidates want to eliminate the department. The rest want to see less federal...
Circuses and clowns terrified Alex Zaprudsky when he was growing up.
"I had this huge fear of everything," he said.
Now, years later, his phobia has transformed into a passion for clowning.
The...
