While the state Board of Regents mull a possible bonus for UI President Sally Mason, other Big Ten institutions have already closed the issue. Regents recently announced that Mason would not receive a...

Most Tweeting occurs somewhere in the dark dimensions of cyberspace. But Tuesday night, it crept out into the real world and flittered to Iowa City’s own Hamburg Inn. The first casual Iowa City “Tweetup”...

Insurance companies won’t take her. Her self-esteem has dwindled. Worst of all, she has to deal with the side effects of HIV every day. Tami Haught has been HIV-positive for 16 years, and she is covered...

Serenity and clarity aren’t the first things that come to most minds when thinking about Iowa City’s bustling Pedestrian Mall. For Jessica Netolicky, the education programming director at Hancher,...

Lab results today confirmed the second and third H1N1-related deaths in Iowa, according to the Iowa Department of Public Health. Both victims were adult males in eastern Iowa and had personal factors...

Iowa City law-enforcement and animal-control officers spent much of Monday chasing down chickens, according to Iowa City police. The scarcely free-running fowl ran amok beginning around 5:30 a.m. and...

A committee made up of the Johnson County officials decided on Monday to appoint a new county supervisor, according to county documents. The decision comes after the death of Supervisor Larry Meyers on...

Amid proposed tuition increases, furloughs, and potential layoffs at state universities, some Iowa lawmakers are calling for the state Board of Regents to reconsider giving bonuses to university presidents. Three...

Across the hall from scribbling students in the Seamans Center is a room filled with gauges, gas tanks, and warning signs. In these crowded quarters, experiments are underway to help reduce the use of...

Biking down Washington Street, Jeremy Gilbert realized too late the street had become one-way. Though new to Iowa City, he knew biking on sidewalks is illegal and decided to continue down the road. The...

For Susan Mims, a seat on the Iowa City City Council could mean one thing: a chance to help cure the city’s monetary woes. But if elected, she said, she hopes to bring even more change to the council. “I...

When Iowa City is affected by tragedy, the Iowa City City Council want to be sure it can fly the U.S. flag at half-staff. So city officials are looking to update the language of a resolution that was...