Former Vice President Joe Biden helped open a new campaign office in Iowa City on Aug. 7, boosting the number of his offices in Iowa up to 12. In a brief speech to a sweltering room on Gilbert Street...

Iowa Athletics Director Gary Barta has received a contract extension that will keep him a Hawkeye through June 30, 2024. With the new deal, Barta is set to make $1 million from July 1, 2020, until June...

The Iowa City City Council on Aug. 6 voted unanimously to pass a resolution declaring a climate crisis and taking accelerated action to address climate change. For the past year, climate strikers from...

Three-star point guard Ahron Ulis became Iowa basketball's first commitment for the 2020 class when he announced Aug. 6 his intent to play for Fran McCaffery and the Hawkeyes. Ulis, the brother of former...

While many students are away during university holidays, the public is invited to discuss the removal of parking spaces to make way for bike lanes in a primarily student neighborhood. Iowa City will...

Iowa City will have two presidential hopefuls visit this week — former Vice President Joe Biden and Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar — before they visit to the Iowa State Fair. Biden's stop Aug. 7 coincides...

Twenty-three presidential hopefuls descended upon the Iowa State Fair to eat turkey legs, flip pork chops, and meet fair-goers. One stop they all made was at the Des Moines Register Political Soapbox...

After two shootings left 30 people dead this past weekend in Texas and Ohio, Iowa politicians reacted with gratitude for first responders, and Democrats called for the U.S. Senate to reconvene. Authorities...

After two hot yet blissful days of music, St. Charles finally reached the last day of the Hinterland music fest. This year was the first in the festival’s history that the programming extended across...

Two Iowa-based bands opened the second day of the Hinterland Music Festival. Des Moines native Adam Bruce kicked off the afternoon with an energizing bluegrass set. Bruce described living in the Midwest...

Some 14,000 people, alight with anticipation, thronged into a sun-drenched field in St. Charles, Iowa, on Aug. 2 for the Hinterland Music Festival. With the festival kicking off the first day of the...

The state Board of Regents has approved the University of Iowa’s request to make changes to the articles of incorporation and bylaws for the UI Research Park Corp.  The UI corporation Board of Directors...