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Iowans encountered a hazy surprise on Tuesday, June 27 when smoke from the ongoing wildfires in Canada began spreading around the Midwest. In what has been dubbed the “worst wildfire season” in Canadian history, fires that broke out in the U.S.’s northern neighbor have since covered the U.S. in smoke that has broken records due...

U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, announced Tuesday that she is working on a bill that would increase oversight over the ownership of farmland by Chinese investment. The legislation comes from a bipartisan effort by Ernst and Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Michigan, the chair of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. Under the legislation, the...

LOS ANGELES — Nikki Rodriguez wants Netflix to renew its fantasy series “Shadow and Bone” — so much so that she has watched its second season 15 times. She’s promoted fan videos on social media to court new viewers for the show. The New York resident also created a Change.org

The Iowa City Police Department has arrested a man in connection to a stabbing that occurred on May 6 on South Gilbert Street. In a press release on Thursday, the police announced that Iowa City man Christopher Torres, 17, had been arrested and charged with willful injury causing serious injury and willful injury causing bodily...

How platforms like Netflix and Prime Video measure success can mean the difference between life and death for a show. But those metrics remain opaque.

The 22nd edition of the venerable Romanian festival has seen a spike in ticket sales ahead of this year's event, which runs June 9 - 18.

01/06/2023 - 12 fiction and 10 documentary features are going head to head in the 2 international competitions, while 9 films are taking part in the feature competition of Romanian Days

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds has signed a slew of education bills that will make broad changes to the education system in the state. The biggest bill, Senate File 496, is wide-ranging in scope and gives parents and guardians the ability to transfer their children to another school within the same district in certain circumstances. It...

The Iowa City Police Department has made a second arrest in connection to the shooting that occurred outside H-Bar in October last year. Coralville man Tramon Robinson, 24, was arrested and charged with one count of dominion/control of a firearm by a felon. The news came from a press release on Thursday. The arrests are...

The University of Iowa announced Tuesday, May 23 that it selected Denise Jamieson to be the next vice president of medical affairs and dean of the Carver College of Medicine at the UI. It ends the search to replace the current vice president of medical affairs and dean of Carver College of Medicine Brooks Jackson,...