A group of 40 middle-schoolers spoke out on Tuesday about what news stories they find most important, giving priority to hard news about domestic events, politics, and science.
Unfazed by catchy slogans...
Will Ingles’ bookstore was built in 1859, when the building was used as a stagecoach layover station and later as a Pony Express station.
But now city officials are planning a renovation project in...
Iowa City legislators and local women’s health advocates say they are infuriated by an addition to the House health-care bill that would restrict access to abortion coverage in the private insurance...
Greg Schmidt furiously scrubs his hands and forearms as his research assistant, Vickie LeGare, watches with a hint of impatience.
The duo from the Iowa Lions Eye Bank in Iowa City is about to prepare...
In the middle of mostly white Iowa, UI officials are hoping to attract students with some diverse thinking.
Beginning in the spring of 2010, the university will be the first school in the Big Ten to offer...
Janet Schlapkohl is producing young starlets every day — growing pains included.
Monday’s life lesson: dancing the waltz.
Schlapkohl, 52, founded City High’s “Combined Efforts Community Drama,”...
The Iowa City City Council voted 5-1 in favor of implementing a franchise fee on Tuesday. The vote was the council’s second consideration of the fee; it needs one more vote before the fee passes.
The...
With a small piece of gauze affixed to her neck, April Chohon smiled brightly as she paced around a hospital lobby in bright flannel pajama pants — a monumental feat considering she was in a debilitating...
Iowa City police arrested a man after he allegedly physically and verbally abused his girlfriend Sunday.
Alvin Seals, 35, 223 Woodside Drive, was charged with domestic-abuse assault causing bodily injury.
According...
As rain pounded against the windows of the Main Library, UI senior Leslie Perk sat alone at a wooden desk in a multi-person study carrel. Around her, students shuffled through the hallways, conversing...
City officials are considering adding a special juvenile detective or an entire bureau to the Iowa City police as means to find alternative ways to reduce youth violence.
The idea, inspired by the Davenport...
James Vineburgh needs childcare.
The UI doctoral student and father of two commutes to Iowa City from Cedar Rapids for classes, and his wife works as a full-time school teacher.
“Without childcare,...
