Chris Werner, Summer Sports Editor
• June 15, 2022
When Iowa men’s basketball head coach Fran McCaffery called Matt Gatens to tell him he’d been hired as an assistant coach, Gatens, a former Hawkeye hooper, was doing a pretty mundane household...
A North Liberty resident, Tyler Sullivan, made up his mind in 2015 to run through all of Iowa’s 99 counties. He’s made it to 92 so far.
While driving to visit his girlfriend in Mason City in...
A group of middle school friends organized a gun control march that caught the attention of local politicians.
The protest comes less than a month after the Uvalde, Texas, school shooting that resulted...
Chris Werner, Summer Sports Editor
• June 12, 2022
The University of Iowa track and field program earned 17 All-America honors at last weekend’s NCAA Championships in Eugene, Oregon. The men’s team finished with 10 All-Americans while the women...
The University of Iowa is suing the two contractors who developed and installed the windows in the UI Stead Family Children’s Hospital.
Kimberly Hunter, interim chief executive officer and chief nursing...
Former Iowa men’s basketball player Matt Gatens was hired as an assistant men’s basketball coach Thursday.
He will replace Kirk Speraw, who announced his retirement last month.
“We...
V Fixmer-Oraiz and incumbent Jon Green have won the Democratic primary race for two seats on the Johnson County Board of Supervisors.
Green won 69 percent of the vote to Fixmer-Oraiz’s 67 percent...
Mike Franken won the Democratic nomination in Iowa’s U.S. Senate primary race and will take on long-time incumbent Sen. Chuck Grassley, R- Iowa, who won the Republican nomination on Tuesday.
Three...
After a lifetime of leadership in Iowa City and time spent overseas as a U.S. Diplomat, Janice Weiner will be heading to the Iowa state senate in 2023.
The Iowa City Councilor Weiner won the primary...
The Democratic nominee for Iowa’s 89th District, Elinor Levin, celebrated her victory at a watch party surrounded by family and friends in a backyard party that doubled as her niece’s first birthday...
After The Englert Theatre’s former executive director, Andre Perry, stepped down in Sept. 2021. The theater’s marketing director, John Schickedanz, temporarily filled the position. Now, his role in...
PBS Iowa will be examining race and Black history in Iowa with “Telling Our Own Story,” a series of four films set to air on Monday and Tuesday.
The first two films, Racism and Its Impact, along...
