On Monday night, the 39th annual Mike and Leona Adams Thanksgiving dinner took place in Waterloo, but with a set of adjustments for safety from the novel coronavirus.
In the last three weeks, the Iowa Department of Corrections has reported six COVID-related deaths — one employee and five inmates, including the death of an inmate at Anamosa State Penitentiary reported Monday night.
Thanksgiving week is usually one of the busiest travel times of the year, but there has been an 11% decrease in travel on the roads statewide this year according to the Iowa Department of Transportation.
The new form, which is only for people living in Linn County, is meant to improve the efficiency of contact tracing efforts by Linn County Public Health.
In the eight months since the pandemic hit Eastern Iowa, plenty of businesses had to close as the customers stopped coming. The Iowa Restaurant Association projects up to 1,000 more will close permanently, across the state, by March 1st.
Senator Chuck Grassley gave a brief update on Twitter on Monday saying he is still feeling good after announcing he tested positive for COVID-19 on November 17.
U.S. Marshals say they arrested a man in Cedar Rapids who was wanted for reckless use of an incendiary device, and parole violation in an incident that occurred outside a U.S. Courthouse on November 19.
The city of Cedar Rapids announced its bridge replacement project on 34th Street SE, south of Cottage Grove Avenue SE, is complete and 34th Street is open to traffic.
As the winter season approaches, many area families are rushing to get repairs done to their homes from the August derecho, and a local non profit organization is helping the families who can't afford it.
The number of people who were reported by Iowa officials to have died in the past week from the novel coronavirus was over 200 for the first time during any seven-day period of the pandemic.
University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics has taken steps to accommodate whichever COVID-19 vaccine candidate they get. They formed a committee a couple months ago to plan for a vaccine, including how they would store it. Chief Pharmacy Officer with UIHC Mike Brownlee says there were some logistics to figure out.
Members of a newly-formed group in Solon said they don’t have confidence in the school Superintendent and they want to change the district’s response to the pandemic.
The Cedar Rapids Community School District will now follow guidelines from Linn County instead of the state when it comes to how it defines “close contact.”
Iowa has reached another COVID-19 related milestone as 4,359 additional people were reported to have tested positive for the virus on Friday. That brings the total number of COVID-19 cases to more than 200,000.
Cedar Rapids Community School District Superintendent Noreen Bush has been announced as a finalist for a national award honoring women in school leadership roles.
