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 [...]

  DES MOINES – The Senate Ways and Means Committee likely will mark the end of the road this session for legislation that would allow all-terrain vehicles (ATVs) to be licensed to operate on secondary roads in Iowa. Committee chairman Sen. Joe Bolkcom, D-Iowa City, said Tuesday that safety and other concerns raised about provisions [...]

A University of Iowa student who was struck by a Cambus on campus in September 2011 has filed a lawsuit against the driver and the University, according to records from the Johnson County Courthouse. The suit, filed March 28, says Rebecca Segriff, 20, was using a crosswalk in the eastbound lanes of Madison Street, near [...]

Citizens, politicians, and organizations from both the right and the left united on Thursday night to discuss concerns over technology advancements they believe pose a threat to American civil liberties. The nonpartisan event — organized by StopBigBrother.org, Young Americans for Liberty, College Republicans and the American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa — was held with [...]

Young, experienced drivers would face more restrictions designed to improve the safety for them, their passengers and other users of Iowa roadways under a bill approved by the Iowa Senate Wednesday. Senate File 115, which passed 41-8, would extend from six months to one year the time that a teenager with a learner’s permit would [...]

State lawmakers haven’t come up with new guidelines regarding traffic cameras along interstates and state highways, so the Iowa Department of Transportation is taking up the issue. The changes could impact cities with cameras and those planning to install them. Iowa City leaders, who were planning to install red-light cameras, are playing the waiting game [...]

UPDATE: The tow ban issued Monday morning for Linn County secondary roads has been lifted, the Linn County Sheriff’s Office said Monday afternoon. The tow ban was implemented as of 8:37 a.m. Monday as light snow fell across the area, according to Linn County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Harvey Hall. It was lifted just after 2 [...]

They’re not popular with the public, but since the first traffic camera was installed in Iowa nearly a decade ago, dozens have sprouted up throughout the state and that trend is likely to continue after state lawmakers opted not to impose limits on local governments. A measure that would have required cities and counties to [...]

Officials said a Cedar Rapids man led police on a high-speed chase early Friday morning and didn’t stop  after crashing into a ditch, spinning out of control and striking a traffic sign. Around 2:47 a.m., police observed a blue truck driven by 40-year-old Bradley Szakacs traveling at a high rate of speed near Westdale Drive [...]

Time slipped away Wednesday for a host of legislative ideas slated to meet their demise when the 2013 session’s first “funnel” deadline arrives at week’s end. Bills dealing with Internet poker, traffic enforcement cameras, distracted driving, secret vehicle compartments, tanning booth prohibitions for minors, various restrictions on abortion procedures and gun ownership, reinstating the death [...]