At the Tuesday, July 12, 2022, City Council meeting, members of the Iowa City Fire Department and Johnson County Ambulance Service were recognized for their efforts to save a cardiac arrest patient earlier this year.

At 9:55 a.m., May 25, 2022, Iowa City Fire Engine 4 and the Johnson County Ambulance Service were called to Urban Fuel, 2580 Moss Ridge Road, to assist with a call regarding a sick person. Engine 4 and the ambulance service responded from Station 4 one minute after being dispatched.

While responding, crews were notified the patient was possibly in cardiac...

Beginning the week of July 25, 2022, the City of Iowa City will revert all 10-minute "pick-up/drop-off" spaces in the Downtown area back to metered parking spaces.

The temporary 10-minute parking spaces were established during the COVID-19 pandemic to provide additional support to Downtown businesses and delivery services. Parking will continue to be available at more than 1,200 on-street, metered parking spaces Downtown and near Downtown.

Additionally, there are...

The Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade brings an end to many individuals' freedom to make private, informed reproductive healthcare choices with their doctors about their own bodies. It also marks the reversal of nearly 50 years of progress towards reproductive justice and the return to an era when a pregnant person's rights to bodily autonomy cease to exist as soon as an egg is fertilized.

As a result, the United States now returns to a time where, depending upon the state in which they live, pregnant people may be forced to seek out illegal and life-threatening...

At 6:50 p.m. Sunday, July 10, 2022, Iowa City Police responded to Gilbert Street south of Southgate Avenue for a personal injury crash. Responding officers located a man in the street near a crashed motorcycle. The man was transported to a local hospital to be treated for life-threatening injuries.

Police are asking that any witnesses to the crash contact the police department at 319-356-5275.