Three of the four races were won by Black candidates, meaning along with current Ward 4 councilor Jerome Amos, the council is majority Black for the first time in history, as well as being lead by a Black mayor.
For the past 23 years, Tim Moses has been the men’s track and field head coach at Waterloo East, where coaches often don’t stay as long as the students. He’s been a rare rock of stability in one of the state’s more challenging coaching environments.
The Northern Iowa wrestling program has moved to a temporary off-campus training facility after their current home, the West Gym, was deemed unsafe. Head coach Doug Schwab says he won't fall victim to negativity.
UAW Local 838 members were officially on strike at midnight across Waterloo John Deere facilities on Thursday after contract negotiations failed to meet the 11:59 p.m. deadline on Wednesday.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist's literacy program to be based at the Masonic Temple, initially serving Waterloo Schools' fourth- and fifth-graders with low test scores.
Cedar Falls and Waterloo West had a pair of first-teamers each on the all-Mississippi Valley Conference teams released Monday while first-year Tigers head coach Chris Ortner was named Mississippi Division Coach of the Year.
Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier sportswriter Jim Nelson is the 2018 recipient of the Iowa Wrestling Coaches and Officials Association's annual Presidents Award.
UNI’s outside hitting tandem is looking forward to an opportunity to put their talent on display in front of a large home crowd during Wednesday’s 7 p.m. McLeod Center debut against Iowa State.
Mayor Quentin Hart met Mayor Pete Buttigieg a year and a half ago, before Buttigieg's run for president, bonding over the similarities between their cities of Waterloo and South Bend, Indiana.
Wartburg College junior Emma Gerdes from Cedar Falls is the American Rivers Conference women’s basketball player of the year, the league announced Wednesday.
Life-long friends Lauren Conrey of Waterloo West and Emerson Green of Cedar Falls will face off in a Class 5A first-round girls' state basketball game Monday. On Saturday, the two will be sitting next to each other in the stands…
Friday night in St. Paul, Minn., Wartburg will take a 26-3 record into its third Sweet 16 in four years. The 11th-ranked Knights face 13th-ranked Wisconsin-Oshkosh (26-3) at 5:30 p.m.
During his time at Columbus Catholic, Northern Iowa defensive lineman Cannon Butler helped turn around the Sailors football program. Now, he is doing the same on the Panthers defense.
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Jeremiah Johnson said he and his family are fired up to return to Cedar Valley as Johnson rejoins Northern Iowa for his second stint as defensive coordinator.
"As service members, we were lied to. We were given false information to make the pitch for a war that had nothing to do with our country’s national security but really was waged for other reasons,” Gabbard said.
Preps to watch for Sept. 18, 2019:
Lauren Kimball of Waterloo Swimming/Diving
Ray Seidel of Waterloo Columbus
Lauren Conrey of Waterloo West
Caden Billingsley of Janesville
Emerson Kracht of Grundy Center
Jacob Remmert of Cedar Falls
Preps to watch for Sept. 11, 2019:
Jazlyn Westmoreland of Waverly-Shell Rock
Ben Sinnott of Waterloo Columbus
Belle Weber of Union
Alex Paxson of Cedar Falls
Zach Opheim of Grundy Center
Ashlynn Tank of New Hampton
Preps to Watch:
Owen Goos of D-NH
Ashlynn Kuhn of Hudson
Emily Clapp of Cedar Falls
Belle Weber of Union
Parker Westhoff of Columbus
Kyah Luhring of Grundy Center
Not many gave Grundy Center much of a chance to get out of the first round against fourth-seeded Iowa City Regina, and fewer gave them a chance Friday.
It's a good thing they believed.
There were two dominant teams this fall in the Cedar Valley. Waverly-Shell Rock and Dike-New Hartford rolled to impressive seasons and made the short treks to the UNI-Dome in Cedar Falls for the state semifinals.
This week we honor Jalen Kirkpatrick of Grundy Center, Brooklyn Love of Hudson, Lyle Olsen of Hudson, Camille Landphair of Dike-New Hartford and Jameel Montgomery of Waterloo East.
Preps to watch:
Ali Gerbracht of AGWSR
Morgan Weber of Dike-New Hartford
Kaden Anderlik of Crestwood
Chase Courbat of Cedar Falls
Carlie Frost of Waterloo West
Caleb Koelling of Hudson
Waterloo Columbus and Cedar Falls led the 2020 all-metro football team, selected by the four metro football coaches, with 14 and 13 selections, respectively.
A two-time state champ at Aplington-Parkersburg, Cameron Luhring left tennis behind after his freshman year of college. One year later, he is a rising star in pro pickleball.
Jacobs and his staff were named the Missouri Valley Conference Coaching Staff of the Year for the fourth time in his tenure and the Panthers won 30 games for the sixth time under Jacobs' leadership.
A Cedar Falls alum, Cook grew up a Panthers fan and played his high school games in the UNI-Dome, before being invited on as a walk-on by Farley. Four years later, Cook holds the holds the school record for successful field goals at 67 and the record fo...
Saturday night around 11 p.m., I put the finishing touches on the Sunday Courier sports section for the last time. A bit of quick math tells me it’s around the 2,000th Sunday section I’ve been part of in some fashion…
Preps to watch:
Isaiah Johnson and Lauren Conrey of Waterloo West
James Stimson of Sumner-Fredericksburg
Jacob Herrmann and Abbie Draper of Waverly-Shell Rock
Briana Baker-Bruce of Janesville
Jessica Carolan of Hudson
Brock Farley of Denver
Advice from her late grandfather Jerry propelled New Hampton senior Carlee Rochford to gold at the 2023 Iowa Girls' State Track and Field Championships, Thursday. Plus, more updates from session
Waterloo Columbus senior Kate Shannon has been named North Iowa Cedar League East volleyball player of the year.
Shannon, a libero who has committed to Iowa State, is also one of nine players named to the NICL East all-conference first team.
After a season that culminated with its second straight trip to the state tournament, league champion Waterloo Columbus placed five players on the North Iowa Cedar League East all-conference first team while Chris Olmstead was named Coach of the Year.
When Jaxon Hansen injured his spinal cord in a diving accident this summer, his mom Jess said, "People leaned in, without our asking" and gave his family hope for recovery.
Wartburg College quarterback Matt Sacia is one of the four finalists for the 2018 Gagliardi Trophy given to the most outstanding football player in Division III.
Zach Opheim rushed for four touchdowns and 188 yards and Dexter Whitehill caught two scoring passes from Logan Knaack as Grundy Center secured a winner-take-all district title over Belle Plaine.
Preps to watch:
Caleb Kuiper of Grundy Center
Hannah Gates of Union
Colton Clark of Gladbrook-Reinbeck
Gabby Gergen of Janesville
Gabby Corday of Denver
Christian Kremer of Independence
A trio of impact leaders joined a pair of talented guards on the 2018-19 All-Metro girls’ basketball first team as voted on by the coaches of Columbus, Cedar Falls, East, Waterloo Christian and West.