Cedar Rapids IA

Ellie Evans from North Liberty has been named Miss Teen Rodeo Iowa 2026, and recently celebrated her official crowning ceremony. She began her riding journey five years ago. She entered the horse industry through 4-H and FFA, and by showing in Washington and Johnson County. In addition to showing, she is active in...

Retail and service industry also performed well, while demand for office space lags, GLD reports CEDAR RAPIDS — A surge in industrial data center development drove commercial growth in Cedar Rapids last year while demand for traditional office space continued to lag below pre-pandemic levels, according to the annual...

MARION, Iowa — The City of Marion is accepting applications for its Military Tribute Banner Program, which honors current and former members of the U.S. Armed Forces with personalized streetlight banners displayed in the community. Now in its ninth year, the program is a partnership between the city, the...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (Iowa's News Now) — The spring-like warmth Friday is coming with an elevated fire risk in parts of eastern Iowa. Red Flag Warnings have been posted in far southeast Iowa where there's been bare ground all week. With the snow melting, the concern for fires sparking...

The University of Iowa aims to cut six undergraduate academic programs and a master’s program after performing a state-mandated review for low-enrollment fields, leaders told the Iowa Board of Regents Wednesday. The programs include bachelor’s degrees in women’s studies, applied physics and three language programs,...

University of Iowa Health Care transplant surgeon Ramy El-Diwany, MD, PhD, recently performed the health system’s first robotic living donor nephrectomy, paving the way for more living kidney donations in the state. Today, just over 20% of kidney transplants nationally come from living donors, and that number is...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Norah O’Donnell, the award-winning broadcast journalist and former anchor of CBS Evening News, is turning the page to a new chapter in her career with the release of her latest book, We the Women. In it, O’Donnell spotlights the often-overlooked women whose influence helped shape the founding of...

NORTH LIBERTY, Iowa — The North Liberty Library has been selected as one of just 10 libraries nationwide — and the only one in the Midwest — to participate in the Teen Dialogue Accelerator, a national initiative led by social technology nonprofit Cortico in partnership with the MIT Center for Constructive...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - A free meal program aimed at the homeless will open in a temporary home after a fire this week. A dumpster fire early Tuesday morning forced Green Square Meals to close indefinitely, leaving more than 100 people without access to a free dinner. The fire broke out just before 2 a.m. behind...

Country Herald is Local News, Independent Pulse. Covering breaking local news, sports, lifestyle and events. Des Moines, IA – Rapid snowmelt and rising river levels could become a concern across Iowa as a surge of springlike warmth expands from the Midwest south to the Gulf Coast before St. Patrick’s Day....