Cedar Rapids News

One thing hasn't changed about a rural Linn County farmer's plan, now revised, to operate an expanded hog confinement operation east of Center Point.

Cedar Rapids police were called to the Red Baron Bar and Dance Club, 62 16th Ave SW, just before 2 a.m. for a report of a fight.

A Cedar Rapids man was sentenced to nine years in federal prison last week for possessing child pornography after a jury found him guilty in March.

A judge is throwing out a 10-year prison term he gave to a former supervisor of a phony check-cashing scheme in Cedar Rapids.

Fire crews responded to Flagstone Apartments just after 2 a.m. on Tuesday for a report of a unit on fire.

It was a scary site near Wall Lake, west of Sioux Falls, Monday afternoon when a cement truck rolled over along the highway.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - A 50-year-old Dubuque man has pleaded guilty to selling heroin to someone who died from the drug.

City officials in Cedar Rapids and in Dubuque convinced the new Iowa Flood Mitigation Board on Monday to interpret the local "skin-in-the-game" provision of a new state funding law for flood protection projects in a way that will lessen rather than increase the costs to local communities.

A 20-foot-long sign with the word capitalism in flashing lights is making its way around Cedar Rapids, asking residents whether they believe the economic system works for them.

Those who have followed this blog long enough may have noticed that, in addition to checking post-disaster developments with regard to Superstorm Sandy, we have also been fascinated with the recovery progress of cities in Iowa since 2008, most notably Cedar Rapids.

Cedar Rapids Prairie junior Jessy Calef delivers her end-of-year Presentation of Learning to her G-Squared classmates on Monday, June 3, 2013, in Cedar Rapids.

MMS Consultants hired Nathan Byers as engineering technician and Walter Hurlbutt as a land surveyor intern.

The door between the bank and the theater opened onto a food related business more often than anything else.

A scene broke out at Outback Steakhouse at around dinner time Sunday night. Cedar Rapids Police confirm an assault happened at the restaurant, leaving two people with non-life-threatening injuries.

More than 100 victims of the 2008 Iowa floods could receive buyouts well above their property's assessed value before the disaster struck.

Police said officers were called to the scene at Park Court and 2nd Avenue southeast shortly before 4 a.m. Sunday.

A sleeping porch in Brucemore in southeast Cedar Rapids on June 7, 2013. The porch was painted by Grant Wood in August of 1925, and cost $182 at the time.

The Hill's yard rolls out before your eyes, unfurling like a lush green carpet into the far distance, finally ending at a "T", at a long beige ribbon of a driveway.

That's the message in Cedar Rapids from Mayor Ron Corbett - fresh off new flood scares here and in Iowa City - at the five-year anniversary of the city's historic 2008 flood.

In 1972, President Richard Nixon made Father's Day an official holiday - a day to honor Dad for all he does for the family.