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There’s reason to be concerned about radon in Iowa, but elected officials opted not to address the issue in the last session.
A congressional tour of the National Weather Service Quad Cities forecasting office revealed a skeleton crew trying to keep ...
The Italianate-style Ida County courthouse was constructed in 1883 and replaced an earlier courthouse, which burned down in ...
This is part two of our DMDC coverage. Read part one On the Greater Des Moines Partnership’s DMDC trip to Washington, D.C., in early May, I had the chance to meet some of the more than 160 attendees, ...
With the summer kicking off and temperatures rising, will Iowa's drought monitor map remain steady or will the state get ...
Consolidating Iowa’s counties and benchmarking state employee benefits to those in the private sector were some of the ideas ...
The Iowa Department of Natural Resources issued an air quality warning across the state from Tuesday to Thursday morning, ...
Iowans who love to fish can make plans to teach a friend without needing to buy a license as the state’s annual Free Fishing ...
Canada is having another bad wildfire season, and more than 27,000 people in three provinces have been forced to evacuate.
Smoke from Canadian wildfires began to worsen air quality in the eastern U.S. on Wednesday as several Midwestern states ...
The Iowa DNR on Tuesday issued a statewide Air Quality Alert through 6 a.m. Thursday. The agency warned that the Air Quality Index may reach the red or unhealthy category in affected areas.