Nitrates, fecal bacteria, sediment and other pollutants in the Des Moines and Raccoon rivers threaten safe drinking water for ...

In November, voters approved expanding the board of supervisors from three spots to five. Dallas County's population has ...

IDALS announced it launched a Water Quality Initiative project to reduce nitrate and other nutrient runoff in the Beaver ...

A highly anticipated two-year water quality study by Polk County was released Tuesday, confirming that the nitrate in the river water is mostly due to agriculture. The ...

Frank Marasco, who has been serving as the interim county administrator for nearly six months, was formally appointed to a ...

Polk County has a new medical examiner. The Board of Supervisors approved hiring Dr. Samuel Stanton as the new county M.E. on ...

Heavy rainfall at the end of June made significant improvement in Iowa's drought conditions. The new U.S. Drought Monitor ...

Researchers at Iowa State University have classified 18 of Iowa’s 99 counties as “legal deserts” because there are not enough ...

People in some areas of the U.S. may want to stock up on their own sparklers, Roman candles and fountains, because the ...

Elev 951 ft, 41.77 °N, 93.71 °W Polk City, IA Weather Conditions star_ratehome ...

On a sunny Sunday morning in 1990 in the "Biggest little town in the U.S.," Portsmouth, Iowa, parishioners gathered at the ...