Craig Gemoules

Houby Days is a festival that highlights the importance of mushroom hunting and the use of mushrooms in Czech and Slovak foods.

A district court judge has rejected a request to dismiss a trespassing charge against a land surveyor who attempted to evaluate a Northwest Iowa property in August on behalf of Summit Carbon Solutions.

The report focuses only on releases from industry - not farm and animal feeding operations, which exacerbate the pollution problem.

An Eastern Iowa hospital has been cited by the state for hiring, without a full background check, a nurse who was later fired for the suspected theft of opioid narcotics.

Americans are adjusting their spending habits in response, according to a poll conducted by the Washington Post and George Mason University's Schar School of Policy and Government.

It marks the latest step by President Joe Biden to address criticism of low inventory and long lines for testing during a nationwide surge in COVID-19 cases due to the omicron variant.

“He was a light and joy in a dark world and will be missed deeply by all those who knew him,” the boy’s obituary reads.

In a video announcement, Hancher Executive Director Chuck Swanson said the Boston Pops had canceled their tour, which included the performance in Iowa City, and that the venue was not able to meet requirements of the actors’ union that represents Irwin.

The governor said she made a decision the first time to approve the action – which cost Iowa about $300,000 -- in response to requests from fellow Republican Govs. Greg Abbott of Texas and Doug Ducey of Arizona.

The Boys State Training School is subject to court-ordered monitoring as a result of a 2017 lawsuit brought against the Iowa Department of Human Services, which runs the school for troubled youth.

National media outlets soon will be buzzing about the mass emergence of periodical cicadas in parts of the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic …