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CEDAR RAPIDS — A citizens’ review board crafted to hold local law enforcement accountable and promote equity in policing received final City Council approval Tuesday, marking a key step forward in city officials’ efforts to meet racial justice advocates’ demands for police reform.

IOWA CITY — Thousands of students who enrolled in one of Iowa’s public universities in the fall — despite the raging pandemic promising a vastly different collegiate experience — did not return for the spring semester, according to new campus census numbers made public Tuesday.

CEDAR RAPIDS — Events of the unprecedented 2020 — the COVID-19 pandemic, civil unrest and the derecho’s destructive winds — shape spending priorities outlined in the city’s proposed fiscal 2022 budget unveiled Monday.

A marriage of 66 years seems a worthy topic to write about on Valentine’s Day.I started researching a column for the holiday focusing on Norman Ballheim, a talented violinist who formed a commercial orchestra in Cedar Rapids about 1910.

Iowa public health officials selected Microsoft to create an online COVID-19 vaccination scheduling system as they seek to get past a frustrating start that has the state ranked near the bottom nationally in doses administered.

IOWA CITY — Opponents haven’t had much success stopping the top-ranked Iowa wrestling team this season.COVID-19 is a different kind of foe.

DES MOINES — Legislative Republicans on Monday advanced separate funding bills they say will meet the needs of K-12 schools next fiscal year. But critics slammed the proposals as inadequate, cruel and vengeful in trying to punish the Des Moines public schools in particular for failing to immediately comply with Gov.

The State of Iowa has reached a $350,000 settlement agreement with a University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics patient who sued two years ago after hip surgery left her with “femoral nerve palsy” — a sort of nerve dysfunction causing “weakness, numbness, and tingling pain.”

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds auctioned off an afternoon of her time to raise money for the namesake charity of a couple who own one of the nation’s largest pork producers and have contributed nearly $300,000 to her campaign.

Linn County agencies are offering free rides to COVID-19 vaccine appointments and guidance to older residents on local distribution.Starting Monday, Linn County LIFTS is offering free rides to county residents who need assistance getting to their scheduled vaccine appointments.