Cedar Rapids IA

Three Iowa City West high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.

Together We Achieve is excited to announce the return of its Turkey Time Together event on November 22, 2025, along with the Thanksgiving Food Box Collaborative, a coordinated registration system designed to ensure more families across Cedar Rapids, Linn County, and surrounding communities receive a complete holiday...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - The Cedar Rapids Metro Economic Alliance considers the “volunteer-driven beverage tents” at the annual Market After Dark to be one of the event’s “most impactful traditions.”. Now they say those tents raised a record amount for local nonprofits. Metro Economic Alliance...

IOWA CITY, Iowa — The Domestic Violence Intervention Program and the Rape Victim Advocacy Program will host the biannual Clothesline Project on Tuesday, Oct. 21, from 5 to 8 p.m. at MERGE, 136 S. Dubuque St. The free, public exhibit uses hand-decorated T-shirts—created by survivors or by people honoring...

Iowa author Erin Becker first saw her name in print when she was 5 years old. The fourth Harry Potter book had come out and was being pulled from school libraries in Cedar Rapids for incentivizing witchcraft. “I thought that was really terrible and I was a big fan of...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Construction is underway on a new school that has been the focal point for property line frustration in one of Cedar Rapids' neighborhoods. Since the groundbreaking, neighbors like Gary Dusil say all the noise and dust at Hoover Elementary is getting too close for comfort.

Built on a hill in Cedar Rapids, began as a symbol of triumph and taste. Its red brick rose above the city's mills. The house looked east over the Cedar River, where smoke and steam marked the source of its owners' fortune and ambition. From its towered roofline to the...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — A car crashes into an apartment on Cedar Rapids' SW side Tuesday morning. Police were called to the 4000 block of 20th Avenue SW at 10:43 a.m. Initial calls say no injuries, though the tenant to the apartment could be displaced. This is a developing...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - 90 eastern Iowa veterans are slated to take a free trip to Washington D.C. Tuesday. It’s the final Eastern Iowa Honor Flight of the year. Mission #57 will carry mostly Vietnam-era veterans. Despite the government shutdown, the flight is expected to continue as scheduled.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - A man convicted of killing Chris Bagley is requesting a new trial. A jury found Andrew Shaw guilty of second-degree murder in August. Prosecutors argued Shaw hired two men, Drew Wagner and Johnny Church, formerly known as Drew Blahnik, to kill Bagley in December 2018.