Girls basketball: Cedar Rapids Washington shoots 71 percent from the floor in the second half, sprints past Cedar Rapids Kennedy, 62-46.

The Gazette emerged with the top general excellence and Best In Class advertising awards for multiday newspapers during the annual Iowa Newspaper Association's Better Newspaper Contest.

Cedar Rapids Prairie's boys basketball team has a goal of hosting each of its Class 4A substate games. The Hawks are unranked in the class and need to get into the top eight in the next two weeks. A 65-59 win Friday night over Linn-Mar was Prairie's ninth win in 10 games.

Photos from the Class 1 and 2A finals during the IGHSAU state wrestling tournament at Xtream Arena Friday, February 6, 2026.

While the top-seeded Reyes finished the season at 43-1 and pinned No. 2-seed Delilah Subsin of Ottumwa in two minutes for the 235 crown, improvement was needed to make it happen.

She knows any high school athlete, particularly in Eastern Iowa, has a Hawkeye t-shirt or hoodie in their closet. She can distinctly imagine them digging around for the shirt they own before a visit in Iowa City, rather than going to the bookstore before stepping on campus.

Mount Vernon's Gracie Pinckney was focused and fierce, recording a second-period pin to claim the 170-pound title at the Class 1A state wrestling tournament Friday night at Xtream Arena in Coralville.

Two Iowa prison inmates have been charged with attempted murder and another felony offense for assaulting two Iowa Department of Corrections employees in January.

Linn County Attorney Nick Maybanks will not review and make a charging decision on the fatal shooting of a Marion teen by a police officer. Maybanks has referred the case to the Iowa Attorney General's Office because he has a conflict of interest.

Instead of opening the bachelor's degree space wide open to Iowa's 15 community colleges — which presidents and representatives from Iowa's 27 private colleges and universities have said could force them out of business — lawmakers have updated House Study Bill 533 to limit the type of bachelor's degrees community colleges could offer, how many they could offer, and the regions where they could be offered.

A special investigation by Iowa State Auditor Rob Sand's office identified more than $250,000 in questioned costs and improper and unsupported disbursements between 2020 and 2025, according to a report issued Tuesday.

An 18-year-old Cedar Rapids man was sentenced to life with a mandatory minimum to serve before being eligible for parole in the targeted and ambushed attack of 16-year-old Michael McCune in 2023. Dante Irvin conspired with three other teens to fatally shoot McCune in the deadly attack.

The president and CEO of the Christian conservative Family Leader announced he is throwing his support behind Steen over U.S. Rep. Randy Feenstra and others

Totaling more than $77 million, the programs were selected as part of Iowa's Healthy Hometowns Rural Health Transformation Plan

Linn County is among roughly a dozen Iowa counties with significantly higher overall cancer rates, and advanced stage lung cancer is particularly problematic statewide, according to preliminary snapsh...

Republican lawmakers also asked the district officials about their plans to improve citizenship verification measures.

Vinton-Shellsburg's Chloe Sanders loves wrestling and appreciates every chance she gets to take the mat. She takes advantage of those moments, earning her second state finals appearance at the Class 1A state tournament Friday at Xtream Arena in Coralville.

The Marion City Council this week approved a motion to create a working group to research potential changes to landfill governance.

Linn-Mar's Chloe Adamson and Cedar Rapids Prairie's Emelia Reyes missed placing at last year's state tournament. They worked hard over the last year and advanced to the semifinals for their first medal at the girls state wrestling tournament Thursday at Xtream Arena in Coralville.

Jesup qualified for its first State Duals tournament in 2024. The J-Hawks haven't missed it in the last three seasons and are the No. 2 seed in Class 1A.

The Iowa High School Athletic Association State Duals tournament is set for Saturday at Xtream Arena in Coralville.