IOWA CITY – The Iowa City area went from talking about a drought to talking about Coralville Lake levels this week in as fast as you can say “downpour.” This week’s deluge – a city-monitored rain gauge in North Liberty recorded 8.28 inches of rain over 28 hours – led the U.S. Army Corps of [...]

IOWA CITY – A new multistory office building and a parking ramp that includes townhomes are part of an Iowa City project unveiled Wednesday. MidWestOne Financial Group plans to construct a building up to six stories high where the parking lot is at the old Sabin School site at 509 S. Dubuque St., a couple [...]

The city will postpone plans for a new entrance to Iowa City’s signature park after hearing objections from residents of the flood-ravaged neighborhood where the road would be located. The city budgeted $270,000 in fiscal year 2014 to extend the access road currently in City Park to Normandy Drive on the park’s northwest side. The [...]

Construction will start next month on a levee along the Iowa River in southern Iowa City to try to prevent flooding in a neighborhood with mobile homes and businesses. The City Council Tuesday night unanimously approved a $4.5 million contract with Iowa Bridge & Culvert out of Washington, Iowa. The company had the low bid [...]

CEDAR RAPIDS — The next time you plunge into a city swimming pool, smack a softball or kick a soccer ball on a city field or roast a hot dog in a city park, remember Julie Sina. Think of Sina, too, the first time you venture out to hear some music at the city’s new [...]

Iowa City will host another public meeting on its flood-related project to reconstruct Dubuque Street and Park Road bridge. The meeting, the third on the so-called Iowa City Gateway project, will start at 4 p.m. April 4 at Parkview Church, 15 Foster Rd., Iowa City. The first part of the meeting will allow people to [...]

CEDAR RAPIDS — As the Cedar River left its banks, rising floodwaters threatened St. Patrick’s Catholic Church four blocks away. The Rev. Steven Rosonke lit a votive candle at the altar of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Nine days later, after hundreds of homes and businesses had been destroyed, after electric lights in all of them [...]

CEDAR RAPIDS — The flood gauge just upstream from the Eighth Avenue bridge here has the depth of the Cedar River these days at less than three feet. The river’s low flow and a distance of four and a half years from the city’s historic 2008 flood — when the river climbed to 31.12 feet [...]

CEDAR RAPIDS — Look up if you need proof that the city is moving on from its historic Floods of 2008. Trucks now have begun to haul dirt to the top of what residents affectionately call Mount Trashmore, as the process of closing and capping the Cedar Rapids/Linn County Solid Waste Agency’s Site 1 landfill, which [...]