Intense criticism will not keep the city of Iowa City from moving forward with a developer planning to construct a high-rise building on city-owned land. The City Council rejected Tuesday night a rezoning proposal aimed at preventing Marc Moen from building a $53.8 million, 20-story building he’s calling The Chauncey at the intersection of College [...]

IOWA CITY – 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 intent is to hire two new police officers to serve as what are known as school resource officers in the district’s three high [...]

Iowa City Council members indicated Tuesday night they would put a stop to plans to install red-light cameras in town – at least for now. Meeting in a work session, no City Council member voiced objections to a recommendation from city staffers that the ordinance allowing traffic-enforcement cameras, like red-light and speed cameras, be repealed. [...]

  IOWA CITY — 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. During a work session Tuesday morning, the board discussed [...]

  IOWA CITY – Iowa City could be headed to court over insurance coverage for its landfill after a fire last year caused $3.5 million in damage. The city and its insurance company, Travelers Companies Inc. of Hartford, Conn., disagree on the insurance coverage related to the fire, City Manager Tom Markus wrote in an [...]

A petition challenging traffic-enforcement cameras in Iowa City is valid, but the portion of it covering cameras is not timely, yet the city may repeal its camera ordinance anyway. Oh, and cameras are not even installed yet and were not going to be any time soon. Got that? Those related and complicated pieces of information [...]

  IOWA CITY – Three strikes and now the question is whether plans for a Johnson County justice center are out. Not enough voters in Tuesday’s special election supported a $43.5 million bond issue for a facility that would include a new 195-bed county jail and court space attached to the rear of the existing [...]

Johnson County residents will head to the polls today to cast their vote on a $43.5 million bond issue to pay for a new justice center. Polls are open today from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Plans for the justice center include a new 195-bed jail and courtrooms. The facility would be located just behind [...]

Iowa City firefighters were busy last year, responding to about 10 percent more calls than in 2011, including 39 percent more fires, according to the department’s annual report released this week. When compared to five years ago, the Iowa City Fire Department saw a 20 percent rise in its total call volume, according to the [...]

Bartender, Iowa City will have another round of 21-only bar debate. Two people associated with downtown Iowa City bars want a public vote on the city ordinance that bans people younger than 21 from being in drinking establishments at night. Late Tuesday, George Wittgraf, owner of the Union Bar, and Josh Erceg, a manager at [...]