Cedar Rapids IA

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — The former principal of a Cedar Rapids charter school has been sentenced to one year of probation and ordered to pay a $105 after allegedly threatening to slit someone's throat earlier this year. Court documents show Justin Blietz took a plea deal earlier this month...

CEDAR FALLS, Iowa — An independent study of tap water in five eastern Iowa communities found nitrate levels below the federal limit but above a threshold researchers say could pose health risks with long-term exposure. The study examined water in Waterloo, Cedar Falls, Waverly, Hudson and Cedar Rapids. Researchers...

CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA — As children return to school, Iowa health officials are urging families to check vaccination records as measles cases rise and childhood immunization rates decline. Local health officials say fewer Iowa children are getting vaccinated, with some communities reporting their lowest rates since 2019.

Big changes could be coming to the suburb’s downtown. Big Grove Brewery is looking at their first space in the Prairie State at 180 N Smith Street in Palatine. Right now, the owners are hoping to buy the building from Durty Nellie’s Gastropub & Concert Club. As the project was just recently proposed, an opening date ha

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - Students in the Cedar Rapids Community School District are returning to class Tuesday for the first day of the new school year. For some schools in the district, Tuesday has significance as the district prepares to transition to the intermediate school model next year. After...

NORTH LIBERTY, Iowa (KCRG) - The Iowa Department of Transportation announced Tuesday morning that the the Exit 4 ramp from I-380 northbound to Penn Street has reopened to traffic. The ramp was repaved and connected to the new ramp. It has been closed since late May, detouring drivers onto Exit...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - A federal district Cedar Rapids judge has sentenced a man to prison accused of manufacturing machine guns in his home. Nicholas Wilson, age 35, from Waterloo, was sentenced on Thursday. He entered a guilty plea to a possession of machine guns in January. A press...

Police in Montana said four children and four adults died at a home on Sunday. (KTMF)

CEDAR RAPIDS — A decade ago, before a sold-out crowd in the U.S. Cellular Center in Cedar Rapids, a rhinestone-encrusted, fan-adoring Dolly Parton graced Eastern Iowa with 2½ hours of her greatest hits and newest ballads — from “9 to 5” and “Jolene” to “Smoky Mountain Memories” and “Here You Come Again.” She was as gen

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Dolly Parton may be best known for her music, but in Eastern Iowa, her legacy is reaching a much younger audience — one book at a time. Parton’s Imagination Library has become a growing part of communities across the region, providing free, age-appropriate books to children from birth through age f