The new University of Iowa School of Music facility in downtown Iowa City will be built as one structure instead of the planned two structures that university officials had previously announced, UI leaders told state regents Tuesday. The original plan was to replace the flood-damaged School of Music in two facilities, one at the southwest [...]

AMES — Removing a parking ramp at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics and replacing it with underground parking is part of the effort to make the hospital campus and planned new patient facilities more open to natural light, accessible and welcoming, hospital officials told state regents Monday. During the state Board of Regents meeting [...]

State lawmakers gave Iowa Lottery officials high marks Tuesday for the way they handled the mysterious circumstances surrounding a winning Hot Lotto jackpot that went unclaimed when attorneys representing a trust that turned in a valid ticket withdrew a claim for the multimillion-dollar prize last week. “That’s the damndest thing I’ve every heard of,” Sen. [...]

  IOWA  CITY – A demolition team tore down the Red Avocado’s former building this morning to make room for a mixed-use residential/commercial development. According to city officials, demolition began this morning at the previous site of the organic vegetarian restaurant, which was located at 521 E. Washington St. #3. Owners said they received a [...]

A New York attorney who presented an Iowa Lottery ticket worth more than $14 million is accused of defrauding an East Coast company. Crawford Shaw, representing a trust called Hexam Investments, turned in the winning ticket Dec. 29, just hours before the deadline for collecting the jackpot. Shaw, 76, of Bedford, N.Y., met Tuesday with [...]

Election officials were mystified Thursday as to how Iowa caucus results from two North Iowa counties were not accounted for in the certified results. State Republican party officials announced the certified results of the Jan. 3 caucuses showed former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum with a 34-vote edge over former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney. Original results [...]

IOWA CITY — University of Iowa officials had a conference call with Federal Emergency Management Agency officials this week to discuss the university’s appeal regarding the flood-damaged UI Museum of Art. But FEMA officials gave no indication of when they might make a ruling on the UI appeal, which asks the agency to reconsider its [...]

University of Iowa officials want to buy two properties on Melrose Avenue and Melrose Place for $1.1 million as part of a plan to build a $3 million surface parking lot for University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. UI officials will seek permission to proceed with the purchases and parking planning during the state Board [...]

CEDAR RAPIDS — A discussion about extending Iowa’s mandatory reporting requirements to include college-level officials is warranted in light of allegations of sexual abuse at Penn State, Gov. Terry Branstad says. He hasn’t had any discussions with members of the state’s Board of Regents about changing mandatory reporting requirements, but he said Tuesday that the [...]

UPDATE: The city of Cedar Rapids’ attempt to make Occupy Cedar Rapids protesters remove all their property from city-owned lots on the northwest side won’t come off without a court challenge. The local movement began in Greene Square Park several weeks ago and moved to the corner of M Avenue and First Street NW around [...]