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6 days ago | 
thegazette.com | Megan Woolard
The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Background Iowa City’s Burlington Street Bridge, a key piece of infrastructure that connects the west side of the city to downtown and the University of Iowa — is crossed by nearly 19,000 vehicles each day. But the bridges — there are two, one traveling east and the other west — are deteriorating.
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1 week ago | 
thegazette.com | Megan Woolard
The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. CORALVILLE — The City of Coralville is pausing a project that would have added two new baseball diamonds to the Coralville Youth Sports Park after construction bids came in higher than expected. Initially, the fields were planned to be available for limited use in the fall of 2026.
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1 week ago | 
qctimes.com | Megan Woolard
ELKADER — Iowa Republican U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson was met with a mix of boos and applause from the approximately 100 people in the audience at her town hall meeting in Elkader Wednesday morning.
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1 week ago | 
thegazette.com | Megan Woolard
The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. IOWA CITY — For more than 20 years, the Iowa City Bike Library has served cyclists in Iowa City, offering bike repair education, community programming, bike rental programs and group rides. Tools are hung on pegboard at one of the bicycle repair stations at the Iowa City Bike Library, 1222 South Gilbert Ct., in Iowa City on May 15.
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1 week ago | 
thegazette.com | Megan Woolard
The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. IOWA CITY — For more than 20 years, the Iowa City Bike Library has served cyclists in Iowa City, offering bike repair education, community programming, bike rental programs and group rides. Tools are hung on pegboard at one of the bicycle repair stations at the Iowa City Bike Library, 1222 South Gilbert Ct., in Iowa City on May 15.
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1 week ago | 
thegazette.com | Grace Nieland |Megan Woolard
The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Business owner Anthony Arrington always considered himself an advocate for social justice and racial equity. It wasn’t until 2020 that he called himself an activist. Arrington, of Cedar Rapids, was one of the thousands of residents to take to local streets in protest after the death of George Floyd, a Black man murdered May 25, 2020, by Minneapolis police during a misdemeanor arrest.
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2 weeks ago | 
thegazette.com | Megan Woolard
This rendering shows the new $4.8 million North Liberty Community Pantry to be built at 350 W. Penn St. The opening has been set for June 23. (Submitted photo) The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. NORTH LIBERTY — The North Liberty Community Pantry is set to open its new facility, located at 350 W. Penn St., on June 23.
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3 weeks ago | 
thegazette.com | Megan Woolard
The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. NORTH LIBERTY — The city of North Liberty is looking to move forward from a mistake that missed the deadline to publish notice of a public hearing and ultimately prevented the city from certifying its Fiscal Year 2026 budget and approving next year’s tax levy.
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3 weeks ago | 
masstransitmag.com | Megan Woolard
The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Iowa City Transit ridership increased 30 percent, or about 388,700 rides, from 2023 to 2024 in the first full calendar year of the city's fare-free transit program. The city launched a two-year pilot program to try free fares, funded through pandemic relief funds, in August 2023 to encourage people to use public transit and as part of the city's climate action goals.
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3 weeks ago | 
thegazette.com | Megan Woolard
The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. NORTH LIBERTY — The City of North Liberty is looking to Iowa lawmakers for help after its Fiscal Year 2026 budget missed being formally approved because a public hearing notice wasn’t published in time. If it can’t correct the mistake, the city would fall $1.3 million short of its planned property tax revenue next year.
