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Updated: 8 hours ago
|By Fernando Garcia-Franceschini
The Giving Room is designed to provide struggling students with the materials they need to feel more comfortable at school.
Updated: 8 hours ago
|By Brian Tabick
Bus driver shortage impacts Holy Family
Updated: 8 hours ago
|By Taylor Holt
All or most of Iowa's school districts have released their return to school plans for families. Now parents have the task of choosing which model works best for them and their children which can be a difficult decision to make. A local education center wants to help parents navigate through the process.
Updated: 12 hours ago
|By Ethan Stein
The Cedar Rapids Community School District has lost 29 bus drivers since March 2020.The loss of bus drivers was one of the more than six different reasons the district cited on Thursday for pushing the school start date back one week to August 31, pending board approval.
Updated: 12 hours ago
|By Jackie Kennon
A non-profit garden now grows at the site of a former school in Vinton.
Updated: 13 hours ago
|By Jackie Kennon
Carmen Legaspi and her husband are using multiple avenues to get their products to customer.
Updated: 13 hours ago
|By KCRG-TV9 News Staff
The Coralville Public Library is bringing back the Coralville Drive-in Theatre, but only for a short time.
Updated: 14 hours ago
|By KCRG-TV9 News Staff
A field of sunflowers in Benton County is open for families to enjoy, but it’s only for a short time.
Updated: 14 hours ago
|By KCRG-TV9 News Staff
Cedar Rapids police have arrested two suspects in connection to a robbery that happened Friday afternoon.
Updated: 15 hours ago
|By Adam Carros
Squaw Creek and the park that bears the same name in Linn County may soon get a new, less offensive name in honor of a Meskawki women’s rights advocate.
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Updated: 15 hours ago
|By KCRG-TV9 News Staff
Brucemore was awarded $1.8 million through the Historic Preservation Tax Credit program last month.
No football season for Drake after Pioneer Football League announces cancelation of 2020 fall season
Updated: 16 hours ago
|By KCRG-TV9 News Staff
The Pioneer Football League announced Friday that they will not have a 2020 fall season. Locally, that means Drake University will not have a season.
Updated: 16 hours ago
|By KCRG-TV9 News Staff
Jerry Burns was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole on Friday for the murder of 18-year-old Michelle Martinko in December of 1979.
Updated: 20 hours ago
|By Zach Owens
Cedar Rapids police are asking for information from the public as they investigate a possible hate crime.
Updated: 20 hours ago
|By Zach Owens
The Iowa Department of Public Health is reporting 591 more COVID-19 cases and six more deaths in Iowa over the last 24 hours.
Updated: 20 hours ago
A new clinical trial will help determine the safety and effectiveness of a possible treatment for those with severe cases of COVID-19, in the hopes of keeping them off ventilators.
Updated: 21 hours ago
Gov. Reynolds and the Iowa Department of Education are making $26.2 million available to school districts, nonpublic schools, colleges and universities to increase internet connectivity for students for the upcoming school year.
Updated: 23 hours ago
A recall has been issued for 1.25 pound jars of “Pickled Ham” from a meat shop in Amana due to the Thompson International, Inc. onion recall.
Updated: Aug. 7, 2020 at 6:41 AM CDT
The in-person Iowa State Fair may have been canceled due to the pandemic, but organizers are taking things online for a virtual event.
Updated: Aug. 7, 2020 at 6:24 AM CDT
A Linn County Deputy was led on a brief chase Friday morning after a man riding a motorcycle refused to stop.
Updated: Aug. 6, 2020 at 10:36 PM CDT
|By Brian Tabick
Cedar Rapids School Districts looks to push back the start of the school year
Updated: Aug. 6, 2020 at 10:19 PM CDT
Livian LaVine is signed up to start her high school career completely online, an option the Iowa City Community School District was hoping would apply to all students.
Updated: Aug. 6, 2020 at 6:49 PM CDT
|By KCRG-TV9 News Staff
Organizers of the 2020 Jingle Cross announced that the event will be postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Updated: Aug. 6, 2020 at 6:38 PM CDT
|By Jackie Kennon
John Gualtier was hit by shrapnel in the hand and the foot while treating soldiers in battle. No one logged his injuries so he could keep helping others, but it delayed getting his honor of a Purple Heart.
Updated: Aug. 6, 2020 at 5:48 PM CDT
|By Randy Dircks
Businesses throughout eastern Iowa have made adjustments to reach their customers during the pandemic, including one ice cream shop Ely.The “milkman is back” at Dan and Debbie’s Creamery as they are now offering home delivery in select locations, taking a page out of another era.
Updated: Aug. 6, 2020 at 5:47 PM CDT
|By Taylor Holt
The Marion Alliance for Racial Equity and other organizations in the city want to establish a community equity working group. Thursday, the city council introduced a motion to move forward with establishing the group, to address issues surrounding racial injustice.
Updated: Aug. 6, 2020 at 5:32 PM CDT
|By Jackie Kennon
Benton County Conservation says it's taken more calls from people wanting to explore the outdoors locally.
Updated: Aug. 6, 2020 at 4:53 PM CDT
|By Adam Carros
The family of a man who was found dead along a creek last week says he died in a bicycle accident but police are still awaiting an official cause of death.
Updated: Aug. 6, 2020 at 4:34 PM CDT
|By KCRG-TV9 News Staff
The City of Cedar Rapids is asking residents for input on a survey for an independent Citizen Review Board.
Updated: Aug. 6, 2020 at 4:22 PM CDT
|By KCRG-TV9 News Staff
The updated 2020 football schedule came out on Wednesday for the University of Iowa, but on Friday the university announced guidelines for fans.
Updated: Aug. 6, 2020 at 3:22 PM CDT
|By KCRG-TV9 News Staff
The Linn County Sheriff’s office received a call Thursday afternoon reporting an explosion in Linn County.
Updated: Aug. 6, 2020 at 3:14 PM CDT
|By KCRG-TV9 News Staff
The state has denied Iowa City School’s plan to start the school year fully online.
Updated: Aug. 6, 2020 at 3:07 PM CDT
|By KCRG-TV9 News Staff
Starting Friday morning, an important on-ramp to Interstate 380 in Cedar Rapids will close for roughly the next three months.
Updated: Aug. 6, 2020 at 2:33 PM CDT
|By KCRG-TV9 News Staff
Mount Mercy University is partnering with African Women Empowered, a local refugee group, to sew masks for students and employees on campus.
Updated: Aug. 6, 2020 at 2:20 PM CDT
HACAP Head Start received a grant on Thursday that will allow them to expand their services to Dubuque, Deleware, and Jackson counties.
Updated: Aug. 6, 2020 at 2:14 PM CDT
The National Mississippi River Museum and Aquarium received a federal grant from Congresswoman Abby Finkenauer on Thursday.
Updated: Aug. 6, 2020 at 1:01 PM CDT
The Cedar Rapids Community School District said it is considering pushing the school start date back one week to August 31, pending board approval.
Updated: Aug. 6, 2020 at 12:48 PM CDT
|By Associated Press
Police in Davenport have identified two people killed in a motorcycle crash over the weekend.
Updated: Aug. 6, 2020 at 12:34 PM CDT
Several superintendents from eastern Iowa are taking part in a virtual roundtable to discuss how they are tackling the challenges of getting kids back in class.
Updated: Aug. 6, 2020 at 12:10 PM CDT
The Johnson County Board of Supervisors passed a resolution requiring face coverings Thursday morning.
Updated: Aug. 6, 2020 at 11:56 AM CDT
The Fayette County Sheriff’s Office is asking for the public’s help locating an Elgin man who is wanted.
Updated: Aug. 6, 2020 at 11:04 AM CDT
|By Associated Press
Iowa officials say a highway construction worker has been killed by a speeding tire that came loose from a pickup truck.
Updated: Aug. 6, 2020 at 10:43 AM CDT
The Iowa Department of Public Health is reporting 647 more COVID-19 cases and 13 more deaths in Iowa over the last 24 hours.
Updated: Aug. 6, 2020 at 10:27 AM CDT
Students and staff at Mount Mercy University will receive a complimentary kit filled with hand sanitizer, mobile phone cleaner and a mask.
Updated: Aug. 6, 2020 at 10:08 AM CDT
|By Associated Press
Police have arrested the husband of a Fort Dodge woman who was shot to death Wednesday afternoon.
Updated: Aug. 6, 2020 at 10:00 AM CDT
Vice President Mike Pence will be in Des Moines on August 13 to speak at a Heritage Action Town Hall.
Updated: Aug. 6, 2020 at 8:47 AM CDT
Northeast Iowa Community College said it plans to slowly, methodically and safely bring students, staff and faculty back to campus this fall.
Updated: Aug. 6, 2020 at 8:31 AM CDT
Iowa Workforce Development reports a total of 6,765 initial unemployment claims were filed between July 26 and August 1.
Updated: Aug. 6, 2020 at 6:16 AM CDT
|By Phil Reed
Researchers from Iowa State and the University of Iowa are partnering to fight the coronavirus pandemic. They are exploring the option of testing for COVID-19 through saliva instead of a nasal swab.
Updated: Aug. 6, 2020 at 5:47 AM CDT
A man is dead and another injured after two vehicles crashed into each other at around 7:45 a.m. on Tuesday.