The harvest season, cooler temperatures and deer entering their mating season prompt more deer movements this fall.
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The harvest season, cooler temperatures and deer entering their mating season prompt more deer movements this fall.
Days after MidAmerican Energy deployed workers to Ohio to help restore power to customers affected by Hurricane Helene, the company announced its crews will relocate to North Carolina to assist with “repairing catastrophic grid damage” in the state.
A mismanaged manure basin at an open cattle feedlot east of Cascade leaked manure at a "very high rate" and contaminated a creek that flows to the North Fork Maquoketa River.
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."
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