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 ...

CEDAR RAPIDS — Even with new snowfall this week — and more expected Friday — the National Weather Service is predicting that flood risks for Eastern Iowa will be below normal this spring.

A tenth revision of the 2015 Cedar Rapids Flood Control System master plan was approved last week by the city council. The plan’s intent is to mitigate flooding so an event like the catastrophic ...

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 ...

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 ...