The city is making strides in its flood control system, with about a dozen projects set for this year alone, with several ...

For months now parts of the Cedar Lake’s trail has been closed off as crews work to build the flood levy on the western side.

The first of a few spring flood outlooks have been posted from many of our local national weather service offices.Thanks to a lack of precipitation throughout t ...

Under a proposed budget reviewed Monday, the City of Cedar Rapids would raise property taxes 19 cents per $1,000 of taxable valuation, or about $54 per year on a home valued at $200,000.

Many homes in the Time Check neighborhood in northwest Cedar Rapids were damaged in the flood and have since been ...

crews broke ground at the site near downtown Cedar Rapids, west of the Cedar River on land that has sat largely vacant since the 2008 flood. Its approval came after the Iowa House passed a ...

Cedar Rapids uses more than $306-million in federal grants for services like transportation, law enforcement, and flood control. Anthony Arrington is a board member of the local chapter of the ...

Leaders on the project say the facility will revitalize an area of Cedar Rapids that hasn’t fully recovered from the 2008 flood. Because it will be in an area prone to flooding, project leaders ...

Fairley—who had felt powerless the last time Cedar Rapids experienced a major disaster, a flood in 2008—fed people for free. “I wanted to do something,” he says. “And I was in a position ...