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Food trucks and free shuttles are part of a series of nonpartisan events planned Monday in Clinton, Johnson and Black Hawk counties to encourage voter participation. In Black Hawk County, free shuttles will run from the University of Northern Iowa Multimodal Transportation Center bus stop on West 23rd Street in Cedar Falls to the Jesse Cosby Center, 112 Mobile St. in Waterloo. Hot beverages and doughnuts will also be available from noon to 6 p.m.

Tom Drury has separation anxiety. For more than 30 years, the Iowa City author has written about the characters in Grouse County as they fall in love, make mistakes, grow older, and find ways to persevere in the rural Midwest. Characters like Louise Darling, Tiny Darling, and Dan Norman aren’t real, but Drury writes about them like old friends. The Iowa Writer's Workshop professor first introduced them in “The End of Vandalism,” which was serialized in The New Yorker before its 1994 publication.

CORALVILLE — Holy Trinity’s volleyball team is back at the Class 1A state tournament after missing out last season. The Crusaders (30-6) are the fifth seed, and will play fourth seed Wapsie Valley (28-13) in an 8 p.m. quarterfinal Tuesday at Xtream Arena. A breakdown of the matchup:

The Crow's Nest is now open for business! The new bar at 912 1st Ave NW in Cedar Rapids held its grand opening celebration on Saturday night.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - A man from Hazleton faces multiple charges after Cedar Rapids Police say he led them on a high-speed pursuit on Sunday. A criminal complaint says an officer tried to pull over Rylan Sawyer for speeding. An officer saw the vehicle go onto I-380 northbound and...

McKenna Woliczko is the second-highest recruit out of high school to sign with the Iowa women’s basketball team. She was ranked in the top ten and is only behind the legendary Caitlin Clark in program history. On Monday, Woliczko will play her first minutes as a Hawkeye. “Sold out Carver. I mean that’s going to […]

CEDAR RAPIDS — Two stretches of Blairs Ferry Road NE will have lane reductions this week as construction projects get underway. Beginning Monday, eastbound Blairs Ferry Road NE between Crane Lane NE and Council Street NE will be reduced to one lane for utility work, according to a city of Cedar Rapids news release. Weather permitting, the work is expected to take about four days. Also starting Monday, about a half mile to the east, Blairs Ferry between Sammi Drive NE and Rockwell Drive NE will

CEDAR RAPIDS — The ongoing and growing popularity of early voting has led to increased foot traffic at the Linn County Jean Oxley Public Services Center, reprising questions about whether it's time to give elections staff their own space. Background The Linn County Auditor’s Office, which is responsible for overseeing Linn County elections, is one of several county departments to operate out of the Jean Oxley building at 935 Second St. SW in Cedar Rapids, but county leaders have long pondered wh

Cedar Rapids recorded its fifth-warmest October in available data as unusual warmth spread across the region.

SOLON — If the Solon High School volleyball program was a napping giant, the awakening was anything but subtle. “I demand discipline,” Coach Ruben Galvan said. “I’m not huge into new drills. It’s more about the team. “I think before, they relied a lot on their natural skills, but natural skills will only take you so far. Discipline, work ethic and chemistry, that wasn’t there.” They’re there now, because of a text that Galvan received from his granddaughter Makinley, then a middle-schooler at So