Because Dubuque Street was flooded, it took a fire truck nearly three times longer than usual to reach its destination, Fire Chief Andy Rocca said last July.
A year later, officials are mulling over projects...
The UI Parking and Transportation Department recently began accepting debit and credit cards, potentially streamlining payment at the university’s 12 parking facilities with cashiers.
Parking-lot patrons...
The sponge is back — but the once-popular contraceptive is unlikely to regain its former glory.
After a nearly 11-year absence and several on-again, off-again production struggles, the Today Sponge...
County officials could work in a renovated building by December under a project to increase energy efficiency in the Johnson County Administration Building.
The Johnson County Board of Supervisors approved...
A temporary security guard patrolled outside the Emma Goldman Clinic last week in the wake of the killing of a prominent abortion provider.
Attorney General Eric Holder ordered the U.S. Marshals Service...
Cedric Everson, a former Hawkeye football player charged with sexual abuse, has his trial pushed back again, this time to Nov. 2.
Everson, 19, is accused of participating in the reported rape of a former...
The UI, Iowa State University, and the University of Northern Iowa will join together at UNI for a conference today on preventing and taking a stand against violence against women.
The three regent universities...
While working with patients diagnosed with vascular disease at the UI psychiatry department, UI junior Caitlin Moore began to wonder how difficult it would be for the individuals to live independently....
The university will save roughly $200,000 on the re-roofing of Burge Hall this summer, University Housing Director Von Stange said.
The savings are a result of local contractors’ lower bids during the...
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...
