Waste production, an area usually unaffected by the ups and downs of the economy, is experiencing an unprecedented downturn after steadily increasing since the 1960s.
This year is the first time residential-waste...
Violent deaths mark year
Iowa City residents and the UI community contended with a series of shocking slayings and suicides during the 2008-09 academic year.
Following allegations that he tried to trade...
Outside Hancher Auditorium on a sunny day amid puddles and mud, Gov. Chet Culver signed I-JOBS bills into law Thursday that will secure $100 million for the UI’s flood-recovery efforts.
Though Hancher...
Most people worry more about the price of gas than the pump it’s coming out of.
But if it’s a pump in Johnson County: Consumers beware.
The Iowa Weights and Measures Bureau does not complete its...
One Iowa City woman has pulled her children from school and said she is leaving the city following a series of riots outside her home.
Iowa City police responded to a fight Wednesday at City High, 1900...
The local-option sales tax would have garnered millions of dollars more for flood mitigation if it had passed in Coralville, but some of the area’s business owners say they’re glad customers will not...
For Lindsey Quinn-Wriedt, a UI graduate student who recently married her wife, the out-of-state legal issues facing her nascent same-sex marriage are daunting.
“It’s scary — if we were in a car...
UI senior Rachel Bender cannot picture where she will be living 10 years from now — and the uncertainty excites her.
Bender, 22, is an international-studies major with an emphasis in global health and...
As the weather heats up, the grills come out and people are ready to barbecue.
And though the pork industry took a big hit after the term “swine flu” scared some people away from the meat, prices...
DI: The first question on everyone’s mind right now concerns Hancher and the Arts Campus. What is the next step with those buildings? What does the future look like for art students?
Mason: The next...
At a time when the UI is facing budget shortfalls and may be forced to reduce faculty and staff, some university officials say they’re not concerned about the possibility of professors delaying retirement.
A...
In Yuma, Ariz., the temperature rarely falls below 40 degrees on a typical day in January.
And for Iowa-raised Nathen Baker — a graduating UI senior who will teach fourth grade in the far-southwest...
