Mr. Shucks waves to fans before a Cedar Rapids Kernels in 2013. The person behind the mask changes and this year’s Mr. Shucks is Williamsburg native Adam Burnham. (The Gazette) Buy Photo CEDAR RAPIDS ...

The first oyster shells were collected at local restaurants in 2014. “I vividly remember how nervous I was to call the first restaurant,” said Annie Morgan Roddenberry, who was hired to start the ...

After six years of pandemic and extreme weather delays, SHUCKS!, a Louisiana seafood house in Abbeville, has been working to open its next location in Lake Charles. Finally, with construction of its ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. CEDAR RAPIDS — A big birthday bash being planned for one of Eastern Iowa’s most beloved mascots will be ...

Since 2018, there has been a plan to bring a second location of an Abbeville seafood house to Lake Charles. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic and tropical storms, Shucks! has seen its opening date ...

Researchers want to transform the natural and abundant resource wood into useful materials, and central to that is a molecular machine found in fungi that decomposes the complex raw material into its ...