Courier reporter Maria Kuiper's top five stories of 2025 were about changes in the community and their consequences.

In 2025, the Cedar Valley gained both chain and local restaurants, boutiques and grocery stores. At the same time, a handful ...

Leaders from Europe and Canada held talks Tuesday on U.S.-led peace efforts to end the nearly four-year war between Russia ...

Payum Bayati was arrested in December 2023 at Anamosa State Penitentiary shortly after completing a root canal. As part of ...

New England Patriots star wide receiver Stefon Diggs is facing strangulation and other criminal charges in connection with an ...

Quarterback Drew Brees and wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald headlined a group of four modern era finalists in their first year ...

Sean Payton says his comment was praise. The Jaguars used it anyway. First-year coaches making the playoffs has become an NFL ...

This year’s best films come from a number of countries and feature some of the finest performances in decades.

Trump has indicated that the U.S. has "hit" a dock facility along a shore as he wages a pressure campaign on Venezuela. But ...

The U.S. economy has been marked by the paradox of a rising stock market but a slowing labor market. Could the explanation be ...

As early as last summer, I started hearing people say that 2026 had to be a better year than this one. Perhaps that was a ...

As 2025 comes to an end, The Courier looks back at some of the biggest, most important and most interesting news stories of ...