Erin Jordan

Parents in three Corridor school districts have filed book challenges in the last year with complaints about a movie, books in verse and graphic novels, including a Caldecott Medal-winning book a Clear Creek Amana parent called "complete and utter garbage."

Iowa Workforce Development recently announced plans to buy a 32-foot-long, custom-built bus to deliver workforce assistance to all corners of the state.

The fertilizer industry creates more than 32,000 jobs in Iowa and pays workers more than $3 billion a year. But as the companies’ profits skyrocket, farmers contemplate skimping on fertilizer because of high costs.

“It could have easily been turned into another housing development off of Sugar Bottom Road,“ Brad Freidhof, county conservation program manager, said in an email. ”There is so much growth occurring, it is important to save this type of habitat and the cultural history associated with it.“

The fertilizer industry creates more than 32,000 jobs in Iowa and pays workers more than $3 billion a year. But as the companies’ profits skyrocket, farmers contemplate skimping on fertilizer because of high costs.

Iowa State University recently got a three-year, $727,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture to study mung bean varieties to see which ones are most resistant to drought, disease and pests while packing a protein punch sought for growing interest in vegetarian diets.

The Cedar Rapids stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is launching the Rescuing Our Roots project to photograph and document 20,000 Iowa headstones starting Sept. 10 and finishing Memorial Day 2023.

The fertilizer industry creates more than 32,000 jobs in Iowa and pays workers more than $3 billion a year. But as the companies’ profits skyrocket, farmers contemplate skimping on fertilizer because of high costs.

As Iowa utility companies seek to make solar power a bigger part of the energy mix — spurred by the need to limit greenhouse gases to reduce the impacts of climate change — proposed solar installations have grown in size and number, causing more concerns from neighbors.

The University of Iowa has named Larry Weber to lead IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering, a century-old program that includes the Iowa Flood Center and water quality research.

Dozens of Linn County residents questioned Wolf Carbon Solutions about a proposed CO2 pipeline through Eastern Iowa.

Iowa’s fish consumption guidelines are now based on tissue sampling, but state officials want to move to a system based on size of fish, regardless of where they swim.

In The Gazette’s first round of exploring what the new legislation means to Iowa, we’re focusing on six ways you’ll see changes in energy, climate and farming.

The Atherton Wetland, named to honor longtime Kirkwood Community College instructor Steve Atherton, who died in 2008, has 210 acres of prairie converted from farmland growing corn and soybeans.

The Iowa Cannabis Company expects to spend $10 million to adapt a 120,000-square-foot warehouse at 2727 S. Scott Blvd. to grow marijuana plants and produce products for Iowa’s medical marijuana program.