If there’s something you’ve seen or heard around the state and thought, “I wonder what’s that all about?”
That’s what Curious Iowa aims to answer. Curious Iowa stories originate with questions submitted by the public and we investigate. Submit your questions today.
Submit your questions or what you are curious about and we’ll review submissions to investigate. Reader-submitted story topics will be posted here and included in a periodic newsletter. Our investigations can come in the form of videos, long-form articles and podcasts.
Houses are moved for all kinds of reasons — to make room for a road, to salvage historic architecture, or to pour a new foundation. But how does the process work? How long does it take? And how much does it cost?
Seventeen years after barn quilts spread through Washington County, quilt owners reflect on the project and what their quilt blocks mean to them.
A flood in 1877 was the catalyst for a recurring boundary dispute between Nebraska and Iowa that caught the town of Carter Lake in the middle.
1,700 new spotters trained this year by Quad Cities SKYWARN program
Since its inception in 2018, the transfer portal has increasingly been part of the collegiate sports lexicon. It has changed how teams fill rosters, how athletes pursue opportunities and even how donors support their favorite college sports teams. But what is it? And how does it work?
How much are Iowa lawmakers paid? And what other perks do they receive as elected officials? Curious Iowa looks at what it’s like to serve in the Iowa Legislature, and how these citizen legislators balance careers and family with their responsibilities at the statehouse.
What makes a supper club a supper club? Curious Iowa explores the Midwest’s supper club traditions.
In this installment of Curious Iowa, we answer a question about cleanup of Iowa’s rivers and why natural debris is left behind.
Was circus the catalyst for the creation of Cedar Rapids Electric Light and Power Company?
One topic dominates the Curious Iowa inbox: roads. Most commonly, readers want to know how roads were named and why. This installment of Curious Iowa is dedicated to these road related curiosities.
Iowa astronauts speak about the work that’s done during missions and the experience of seeing Earth from space.
How does someone who is serving a life sentence pay restitution when most jobs available for prisoners in Iowa pay less than $1 an hour? The short answer is they usually don’t, at least not in full.
Whether it’s a new residential development, or a roundabout on a city street, there’s a lot of planning — and math — that goes into engineering a road.
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