Erin Jordan

The Eastern Iowa Airport will buy a residential property south of the airport because of concerns the groundwater there is contaminated by per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS.

Prairie Farms Dairy has agreed to pay $10,000 -- the maximum penalty the Iowa Department of Natural Resources may enforce -- for exceeding wastewater discharge limits 139 times between 2018 and 2022 at its cheese manufacturing facility near Monona.

While many matches last just a few formative years, Jason Powers’s and Steve Warner’s relationship has endured through good times — Warner was a groomsman in Powers’s 1999 wedding — and hard times — Powers waited in the hospital while Warner had open-heart surgery in 2018.

The Eastern Iowa Airport’s governing board will consider buying a residential property valued at $770,000 because the home has a drinking water well with high levels of toxic chemicals found in firefighting foam used for decades at the airport.

A Stockton facility has agreed to pay a $5,000 fine for illegal dumping after a former employee allegedly buried underground at least 20 barrels, some containing unknown liquids.

Prosecutors allege Michael Butikofer, who operated an animal-feeding operation called Fawn Hollow, used “threats of violence, violence, and loss of employment or legal status” to keep foreign workers from blowing the whistle on a criminal enterprise in which he sold cattle belonging to other people for his own gain.

Iowa City Transit had 45,009 more passenger trips this October than in October 2022, the city reported last week. Since launching Fare Free Iowa City in August, there have been 135,191 more trips compared to last year.

With 26 panelists, six entertainers and the goal of finding solutions to some persistent problems facing Black Iowans, the MLK NOW conference Jan. 13 in Cedar Rapids is expected to draw more than 1,000 people from across the state.

POET, the world’s largest ethanol producer, has agreed to pay a nearly $90,000 fine to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for releasing pollution into the air at its plant in Menlo, in western Iowa.

A draft of a new Iowa Administrative Code Chapter 65 released in September required new CAFOs near karst terrain to have a greater barrier between manure basins and the porous soil common in northeast Iowa. But the version the DNR sent to the Environmental Protection Commission in mid-November did not include that provision.

Iowa has a small network of Black farmers — just 72 were reported in the 2017 Census of Agriculture — but Todd Western III wants to invite them all to the first Iowa Black Farmers conference next month in Des Moines.

One reason for limiting PFAS tests of private wells is the cost. While tests for nitrate or arsenic — other common well tests — cost $60, PFAS testing costs at least $370. If the first PFAS test samples come back positive, the State Hygienic Lab tests the second sample, raising the cost per well to $740.

There’s been a national shortage of ADHD medications for more than a year. What started with manufacturing delays for a producer of

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources has approved a manure plan for Supreme Beef, a cattle feedlot in northeast Iowa, but opponents questioned whether it’s legal for the applicant to tweak the plan midway.

A monthslong wait for a permit to install underground wells for a geothermal heat system at the Eastern Iowa Airport may delay construction of the final phase of a 10-year, $120 million renovation.