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IOWA CITY, Iowa (KCRG) - Former Iowa City School superintendent Matt Degner has resigned from the district. The school board accepted his resignation Tuesday night in a 5-2 vote. Board members Mitch Lingo and Audrey Moeller voted against accepting it. Lingo removed the resignation from the consent agenda ahead of...
IOWA CITY — St. Mary’s Catholic Church has hit multiple roadblocks on its way to a multimillion-dollar construction project but is hoping for a green light from the Iowa City Council on Tuesday night. The church, at 228 E. Jefferson St., would like to tear down two church-owned houses — at 302 and 306 E. Jefferson St. — so it can build a new parish hall. The problem is the houses sit on a street that’s in a historic district. The Iowa City Historic Preservation Commission denied the request to proceed with the project in a 4-3 vote at its October meeting. The church plans to appeal that decision to the Iowa City Council on Tuesday. The Rev. Andrew Rauenbuehler said the church has been working on a long-term campus plan for well over a year. The church has been on the corner of Jefferson and Linn streets since the 1840s and has no plans to move but does want to build for the future. In the main church building, accessibility and functionality are challenges, with the church wanting to install main-level restrooms and expand the functionality of the parish hall downstairs. “The biggest project, and the one we have
IOWA CITY, Iowa (KCRG) - Iowa City announced Tuesday that it has launched an affordable housing dashboard to help the public explore the city’s housing landscape. The dashboard brings together data on affordability, residential development and progress toward the city’s housing goals. It covers:. Demographics and the local...
Rack up enough unpaid parking tickets in Iowa City and the next consequence won’t be a tow truck. It will be a yellow plastic slab stuck to your windshield. The City Council has voted 7–0 to let parking enforcement use the Barnacle, a device that clamps onto a windshield with suction cups and blocks the driver’s view until the fines are paid. City staff pitched it as a cheaper and faster alternative to towing for cars on the impound list. That list currently starts at $150 in unpaid fines. The city raised that threshold from $50 to $150 late last year.
IOWA CITY, Iowa — An Iowa City school board member is questioning why he is being removed from a key financial oversight role, even after the committee voted unanimously to keep him. School board member Mitch Lingo is pushing to remain on the district’s Financial Oversight Committee. New committee...
The months of political ads and campaign rallies finally ended on Nov. 3 when Gov.-elect Rob Sand won against Zach Lahn with 55.5% of the vote, following a heated campaign battle. Similarly, in the U.S. Senate race, Josh Turek won with 50% against Ashley Hinson, setting a new trend of...
New, reduced-credit pathways to a degree are making their way to Iowa’s public universities with preliminary approval from their state governing body. The Iowa Board of Regents Academic Affairs Committee Wednesday recommended approval for the University of Iowa and University of Northern Iowa to establish bachelor of applied professional studies degrees, developed in deference to […]
DUBUQUE, Iowa — November 12, 2026 — Linn County’s landfill could reach capacity as early as 2036, and data center construction waste is filling it faster than expected. Dubuque’s landfill, by contrast, has room to spare — and the agency that runs it has been watching Linn County’s problem for months.
● TL;DR — KEY FINDINGS $517,828 in IRS penalties tied to payroll tax filing and deposit problems. $583,467 in questioned special education costs, plus $63,457 in claims lacking documentation. Earlier audit flagged $38 million in transfers without required board approval. The district has announced financial oversight reforms. Questioned costs do not automatically establish fraud or […] Originally published by Iowa Pulse . For more verified Iowa news and real-time updates, follow Iowa Pulse.
The Delaware County Board of Supervisors has given initial approval to rezoning land just west of Hopkinton for a bitcoin mining company, but will require a new type of cooling system. County Supervisor Shirley Helmrichs said the land which is currently in an agricultural zone would be reclassified for light...
IOWA CITY — In a little over two months, the Iowa City schools Attendance Boundary Committee will present school closure and attendance boundary scenarios to families for the 2027-28 school year. But many committee members left their second meeting Wednesday feeling like they had more questions than answers. “It’s frightening to go into this blind,” said Mayra Hoskyn, a school counselor at Liberty High School, a parent in the district and member of the committee. “We do probably want to make the big decisions here, but we don’t have the facts. We don’t have the data. We don’t have what the implications are. … What if we close too many schools, and we’re too aggressive with that? What if we don’t close enough, and we have this cloud looming over us for years?” said Hoskyn, whose children attend Van Allen Elementary and North Central Middle School. “None of us in this room want a closure of a school. … I think all of us here know it has to happen. I think we can digest this. However, it’s going to be very hard to make a decision because everybody here is invested in their own school community,” Hoskyn said. The
KENT WORLDWIDE has awarded Crossroads, Inc. a $100,000 grant in support of the new Crossroads Day Habilitation facility, which will be located at 2206 Lucas St. in Muscatine. This grant is helping to remove barriers to participation and expand opportunities for people with disabilities across Muscatine and Cedar counties. The...
The Iowa Board of Regents has made another final selection for the Center for Intellectual Freedom at the University of Iowa’s permanent leader after its previous choice rejected the offer. After closed-session interviews Wednesday afternoon, the board announced at its Nov. 12 meeting that UI political science associate professor Brian Lai would serve as the […]
Students, staff and families at Heritage Christian School in North Liberty honored veterans at a Veterans Day celebration Wednesday morning.
The Iowa City Community School District school board decided to sell two non-instructional properties, including the district’s Center for Innovation. The other property is land the district owns in southwest Iowa City. The decision comes after the school board discussed selling the administrative building during its Oct. 27 meeting...
WATERLOO, Iowa (KCRG) - Big Head Burger in Waterloo gave free meals Wednesday to all veterans and active-duty military on Veterans Day. Bob May served in the U.S. Air Force from 1965 to 1968. “I was maintaining a system that refuels aircraft,” May said. “I had to stand by the...
The Black Hawk County Gaming Association has awarded a $750,000 grant to improve public transit in Waterloo and Cedar Falls. A joint initiative between the cities and MET Transit is looking to raise a total of $4.6million to fund a micro-transit pilot program. The program will use smaller passenger vans to navigate designated zones to provide shared rides that connect riders directly to their destination or link them efficiently to MET Transit’s existing fixed route bus network. Ideally, it would be a “first-mile/last-mile” connector. Specific passenger fares remain under evaluation but the program aims to lower transit barriers, shorten travel times, and increase ridership across the transit system.
MASON CITY, Iowa — Rain has pushed a Mason City road project behind schedule, while several other North Iowa construction projects are nearing completion, according to the Iowa Department of Transportation. “Unfortunately with the rain, the project will probably extend past Thanksgiving,” Iowa DOT spokesman Pete Hjelmstad said. “We’ll...
Mayor Boddicker opened the regular meeting at 6:00 PM. Roll Call: Council Present: Cross, Rinderknecht, Seeck, Slouha. Approval of the Agenda: Motion by Rinderknecht, 2nd by Seeck approving the agenda including the addition of Action Item g, all present aye, motion carried. Public Works: Addressed flooding, report is on file....
