Cedar Rapids IA

If you don't consider bird-watching one of your hobbies, give it time. I watched my grandparents watch birds in their backyard when I was a kid, and thought, "Man, they're old!" Now, my parents have bird feeders set up everywhere so they can see colorful birds in their spare time. And yet, I still say to myself,...

CENTER POINT, Iowa (IOWA'S NEWS NOW) — Layoffs are hitting a Linn County auto dealership and its sister dealership in Benton County as the businesses and their owners face a lawsuit from Stellantis Financial Services, the lending arm of the automaker behind brands like Chrysler, Jeep, and Fiat. Iowa...

An Iowa Senate subcommittee moved ahead legislation Wednesday to set a residency requirement in the University of Iowa nursing program — with no guarantees of it even coming to the full Education Committee without members seeing more information. House File 2226 passed the House with other higher education...

An Oregon man accused in a decades-old killing in Linn County, Iowa will now face a jury trial in 2027. Michael Schappert was arrested in May in connection with the 1983 murder of Ron Novak after investigators said DNA evidence linked him to the crime scene. According to court records,...

IOWA CITY, Iowa (KCRG) - Dozens of Iowa City High School students are stranded at O’Hare International Airport after pilots at Lufthansa airlines went on strike. About 150 students were traveling to Germany for a band trip when the strike disrupted their original flights. The group was divided into...

NORTH LIBERTY, Iowa — Two University of Iowa Health Care scoliosis patients donated 280 stuffed “Higgy Bears” to their care team after raising thousands of dollars through a national charitable initiative. Meredith and Addy delivered the bears Tuesday morning at the University of Iowa Health Care Medical...

The scene, the sights, the sounds — they all looked different to former coach Gayle Blevins. Unfamiliar indeed, but encouraging nonetheless. Standing along the first base line at Pearl Field, Blevins observed the Iowa softball team from a distance, but couldn’t drag her eyes away from the atmosphere.

An area robotics team is going to the world championship. The team, featuring students from Mid-Prairie’s Middle School and Home School Assistance Program, has qualified for the FIRST Championship, a competition featuring the best robotics teams from all over the world. EagleBots, a team based out of Iowa City,...

One half of Kirkwood Community College’s Introduction to Glass students have already completed their work creating blown forms this semester. The class is one of many offered in this specialized medium and a required prerequisite for further advancement as a glass artist at Kirkwood. Although this semester saw a...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — UnityPoint Health–St. Luke’s Hospital has become the first hospital in Cedar Rapids to offer a newly approved implantable device designed to protect patients at risk of sudden cardiac arrest. Dr. Talha Farid, a cardiac electrophysiologist at St. Luke’s, recently implanted the area’s first...