Iowa City News

BICYCLE FRIENDLIER: Iowa City recently moved a step ahead on the bicycle friendly path.

Learning to read takes practice, and summer is the perfect opportunity for kids to "dig into reading" because it's a chance to read for fun in a relaxed setting.

Congratulations to the students and faculty at Regina Elementary School in Iowa City for being involved in using our resources in order to keep from supplying our misused landfills.

Researchers following more than 116,000 women found that morbidly obese study participants were 39 percent less likely than normal-weight women to develop the chronic condition - in which uterine tissue grows outside the uterus and causes painful periods and bleeding.

A dog named Toby has been credited with saving an Iowa couple from a fire that damaged their home southeast of Des Moines.

Rebecca Bartle, a senior dramatic production major from Fairfield, was among approximately 1,500 Bob Jones University students who were named to the Spring 2013 Dean's List.

A 50-year-old Iowa City man is in the Johnson County Jail this morning on felony charges after police found more than 10 pounds of marijuana in his house, just east of downtown.

Cassandra Elton, the director of the library, poses in front of the Antelope Lending Library in the Ped Mall in Iowa City on May 11, 2013.

The Tuscany Day Spa at La' James International College is located inside one of the beer caves the were part of the Union Brewery in what is now the Brewery Square building on Jan.

Velvet Coat carries more than 30 designer brands, including Rag & Bone, Diane Von Furstenburg, Tory Burch, and Pink Tartan.

A couple has been arrested on suspicion of stealing jewelry belonging to an Iowa City man's deceased wife and then pawning it to help pay rent.

Global health officials say a deadly new respiratory virus related to SARS has apparently spread from patients to two health care workers in eastern Saudi Arabia.

This car crashed into a field along Highway 1 near 120th Street, north of Solon, around 6 a.m. Wednesday.

The City Council Tuesday night OK'd a grant application that would provide money to put armed police officers in secondary schools in the Iowa City Community School District.

The study, which is published online today in Europe's leading reproductive medicine journal Human Reproduction [1], found that the risk of endometriosis was 39% lower in morbidly obese women -- those with a body mass index greater than 40 kg/m2 -- compared with women with a current BMI in the low normal range .

The Johnson County Board of Supervisors is going back to the drawing board to fix immediate safety and security needs at the jail and courthouse after a $43.5 million bond issue for the justice center failed, for the second time, last week.

IOWA CITY, Iowa - Iowa guard Patrick Ingram plans to transfer schools after just one season with the Hawkeyes.

Gerald Anthony "Jerry" Morgan, 67, of Lone Tree died Sunday, May 12, 2013, in Mercy Hospital in Iowa City.

To someone who has never tried, it's not obvious how to learn the things you want to learn outside of school.

Iowa City and Cedar Rapids are now considered a combined statistical area for the Creative Corridor.