Erin Jordan

In just the Midwestern states of Iowa, South Dakota, Nebraska, North Dakota, Minnesota, Missouri and Kansas, outdoor recreation generates about $60 billion in spending about 550,000 jobs, a trade association says. Iowa would like to keep a larger share of that spending within its borders

A Quad Cities man who was an experienced scuba diver died last week during a dive to repair a broken cable at the bottom of a million-gallon anaerobic digester.

The Iowa Department of Corrections has fired two nurses at the Iowa State Penitentiary at Fort Madison after they incorrectly gave 77 offenders overdoses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in April.

Concrete planters have been poured and railings will be installed in July. Iowa City officials hope this will make people think twice about climbing up the bridge arches.

Video visits that some jails implemented during COVID-19 are replacing face-to-face visits at the Linn County Correctional Center. Johnson County has been using video visits for at least five years.

Broken water main caused disruption to normal distribution operations, which created a potential for bacteria contamination.

Gov. Kim Reynolds said Wednesday she will use some pandemic relief funds on a marketing campaign to persuade people to move to Iowa, a state that has a job surplus and has lifted COVID-19 restrictions more quickly than other states.

He has been with the state agency since 1992

The Iowa Department of Corrections will resume in-person visits for incarcerated individuals in early July, provided the offender is vaccinated against COVID-19.

The expense of child care is impacting low-income families who cannot afford it, the advocates say, and is keeping others out of the workforce.

Kris Karberg has been deputy warden at the Mike Durfee State Prison in Springfield, S.D., for three years. In his 28-year career in security, he spent 10 years providing private security overseas in Southwest Asia, Belize and Afghanistan, where he was a contractor for the U.S. State Department.

Iowa Department of Natural Resources Director Kayla Lyon said she doesn’t have the authority to overturn her agency’s approval of an 11,600-head cattle feedlot near Monona.

Grinnell College students planted 5,200-square-foot prairie on campus, opting to cut out the sod and remove it rather than using herbicide to kill the grass. The space now will have 40 different varieties of prairie plants including coneflower, milkweed, purple love grass and little blue stem.

Sales of native wines -- the wines produced at about 100 Iowa wineries -- were down 32 percent last year. But with COVID-19 restrictions easing, Iowa wineries are preparing for a busy summer and, in some cases, expanding.

In coming weeks, Cedar Rapids crews will cut down as many as 2,000 more trees damaged in last year’s derecho. Hundreds of new trees being planted.