Linn County News

New, final figures from campaigns for and against casino gaming in Linn County show the sides did not raise and spend $2.25 million, but rather $3.43 million in the weeks leading up to the hotly contested March 5 referendum.

It seems like the flowers have just started blooming, but now is the time to prepare for what to do once they have bloomed.

The Linn County Sheriff's Department says one person has died following a crash in Linn County early Saturday morning.

Many Eastern Iowans are experience a cell phone service outage tonight. Cell phone users in Cedar Rapids, Dubuque, the Quad Cities and many other communities have reported cell phone service disruptions.

Attempted murder and other charges filed against a 16-year-old in connection with a Cedar Rapids drug robbery were dismissed Wednesday by the state.

A 52-year-old Cedar Rapids man was convicted Tuesday for his ninth residential burglary and 15th overall criminal conviction.

The Iowa Department of Transportation's highway improvement plan for the next five years includes two fairly high profile projects in Linn County.

Devon Dietz with a customer at the Master Gardener Plant Sale. Master Gardeners will help you choose the plants that are just right for you.

We know them by their red kettles and their thrift stores, but both around the world and right here in Cedar Rapids, The Salvation Army does so much more.

It's easy to hear grumbling about Cedar Rapids' city streets, but not so much so about Linn County's rural roads.

During 25 years in the Air Force, Ken Rizer was a jet fighter pilot and a base commander responsible for 60,000 people and a $250 million budget.

North-Linn High School senior Brendan Schott puts Paris, a 5-year-old American alligator, back into its tank in the school's greenhouse on Friday in Troy Mills.

Jeff Lamberti, chairman of the Iowa Racing & Gaming Commission, on Tuesday said the outcome of last night's vote to allow casino gaming in Warren County just south of Des Moines had little bearing on the prospects for a Cedar Rapids casino to secure a state gaming license.

The Linn County Sheriff's Office is looking for a 16 year old that has run away for the second time in a month.

Those who want to see a casino built in Cedar Rapids will be watching Tuesday to see if voters in Warren County south of Des Moines approve gaming in their county, as voters in Linn County did March 5. It's not clear if the Cedar Rapids request for a state gaming license would be helped or hurt by a simultaneous request from Warren County.

Firefighters and hazmat crews spent Sunday cleaning up a chemical spill in Cedar Rapids.

Cedar Rapids/Linn County needs this proposed casino. I am 25 and spend most of my weekends in Iowa City, Des Moines or Ames visiting friends and clients.

They ate, listened to live music and socialized before cutting ribbon and walking across the new bridge that serves as an important link to the 52-mile nature trail which runs from Black Hawk County to Linn County.

Surely that demand has been heard over the century and half since the first farmers planted their lives in and around this tiny graveyard on a little hill with the wide vistas a few miles east of Central City.

Earlier this week, I pointed out that Link Strategies, which guided Just Say No Casino forces in Linn County, is now working for Vote Yes Warren County as voters south of Des Moines face a gambling referendum vote Tuesday.