About 150 Alliant and 70 MidAmerican line workers and crew members were sent to Virginia and Ohio, respectively, to help energy companies there restore customers’ power that was knocked out by the severe storm.
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A North Carolina county that includes the mountain city of Asheville reported 30 people killed.
Dams across the country are aging, and facing pressures from urban sprawl and intensifying floods wrought by climate change. The price tag to fix what’s broken is estimated in the hundreds of billions of dollars, meaning dam owners could face hard questions about what to do with them.
Acting assistant administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency, in Cedar Rapids, calls the project a “win-win-win.”
The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is continuing work on a number of investigations, including a pool of mysterious blue liquid that was found in southwest Iowa.
On a typical day, Cornell College’s cafeteria is stocked with meals that are 20 to 30 percent locally sourced. But Tuesday, all the food served to Cornell students — breakfast, lunch and dinner — came from within 150 miles of the Mount Vernon campus.
A man who was responsible for the demolition and partial burning of an asbestos-containing building in West Chester appealed a fine and had it reduced by more than half.
“As you drive across the Midwest, maybe in the next seven, eight, 10 years, you're going to see a lot of this out there,” said Cameron Sorgenfrey, an eastern Iowa farmer who has been growing newly developed short corn for several years, sometimes prompting puzzled looks from neighboring farmers. “I think this is going to change agriculture in the Midwest."
Fewer acres in the Conservation Reserve Program and bad winters contributed to declining pheasant harvests. But the 2023 pheasant harvest was still the best in 16 years.
Four gardeners share why they plant native, and offer tips for getting started yourself.
Systems serving populations less than 10,000 people have until Oct. 18 to sign up for the voluntary monitoring program offered through the Iowa Department of Natural Resources.
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