Sycamore Mall — the retail tumor attached to that Panera over by Petland — was rescued from foreclosure earlier this week. The RC Cola of Iowa City shopping experiences will live to sell another day....

A bill introduced in the Iowa House by Rep. Jake Highfill, R- Johnston, would allow Iowans to collect cash prizes from fantasy sports leagues, a practice currently prohibited under the states rather draconian...

Anyone who has baby-sat younger children for an extended period of time knows it can be exhausting to the point where you want to pass out, too, once you’ve read them the same book five times and...

“BRB,” “JK,” “LOL”: three abbreviations that are highly used in many text messages, Facebook posts, and even verbally in daily conversations. Also known as the reason...

What about the puppy mills? I was disappointed with your story about students and pets benefiting from visits to Petland. I agree that petting an animal is excellent for stress relief and has been proven...

Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist and immigration activist Jose Antonio Vargas spoke Monday night at the Englert Theater about America’s need for immigration reform that moves the country’s...

National Eating Disorders Awareness Week may have come to a close on March 2, but the reality is that eating disorders are a year-round, seven-days-a-week, stifling preoccupation for those who suffer from...

March 8 is just another day. Another day in which a woman is killed every six hours in South Africa by an intimate partner and a woman in Brazil is sexually assaulted every 15 seconds. A day where on average,...

Across the nation, birth and fertility rates are down, and they have been falling since the 2008 recession. For decades, they were high enough to maintain a stable population, but they have now fallen...

In the big news today, NFL center Jeff Saturday will retire on Thursday. Oh, you thought the big news was sequest or sea quest or see something? Or perhaps Sen. Robert Menendez, a Democrat from New Jersey...

Superheroes come in all shapes and sizes. And we have one of own here at the University of Iowa — Katherine Strickland, a first-year student who will bike from one end of the country to another this...

In cities all over, January's massive nightclub fire in Brazil has brought new attention to a particularly arcane set of policies: fire codes. More than 230 people were killed when a fire started in the...