Cedar Rapids IA

(Iowa) -- Keeping your lawn green in Iowa is more expensive than you might think, according to a new national list of the most expensive cities for watering the lawn. Gardening website LawnLove.com examined the cost of watering the lawn in nearly 500 cities across the country based on multiple factors including waterin

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - The executive director of a Cedar Rapids charter school that caters to at-risk students is now on paid leave. Empowering Excellence confirmed to KCRG that Sarah Swayze has been placed on paid leave but declined to comment further. Swayze was the driving force in opening...

Guard Cayden Daughtry is one of Iowa's top targets, and McCollum must find a way to get him to Iowa City.

LINN COUNTY, Iowa — A vehicle vs. deer crash on Highway 151 near Fairfax sent a juvenile passenger to the hospital. The Linn County Sheriff's Office says the crash happened just before noon Monday at Highway 151 and Highland Avenue. A green Volkswagen was heading north when the driver...

NORTH LIBERTY, Iowa (IOWA'S NEWS NOW SPORTS) — A North Liberty condo is heavily damaged after a Memorial Day fire in Johnson County. A number of area fire departments responded to the scene late Monday afternoon in the 1100 block of Ivy Lane in North Liberty, just north of Forevergreen Road and east of Highway 965.

"Oh, say can you see" — or rather, cannot miss — a massive 20-by-38-foot American flag rising 80 feet high, surrounded by 11 rows of five 25-foot flagpoles featuring U.S. state, military, and other designated flags. This patriotic landmark sits just under 3 miles off Interstate 80 on Historic Route 6in Brooklyn, Iowa,

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - Allen and Kurt Buck have a connection as family, co-workers, and now survivors after both experiencing open heart surgery weeks apart. “You can’t really make it up” Kurt said. Kurt and Allen Buck have led healthy lives as both men regularly exercise and...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - As the nation honors the soldiers who gave all on Memorial Day, hundreds of soldiers lie in Cedar Rapids at Oak Hill Cemetery - their final resting place. The cemetery contains multiple sections designated for veterans, including the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) area...

In the 1930s, Cedar County farmers clashed with officials over a tuberculosis testing law, sparking the Iowa Cow War, complete with protests, violence, and the National Guard's intervention.

IOWA CITY, Iowa — The Center for Intellectual Freedom at the University of Iowa has been a hot topic of conversation this past school year, and a new bill headed to Gov. Kim Reynolds' desk could change how the center operates. House File 2800 has the privilege of being...