Jared Strong

State agricultural officials sought to sell them after their owner ran out of money, but the company’s creditors threatened to seek a piece of the profit.

A three-term Republican state representative will face a Libertarian newcomer, who says she will use her struggles with addiction and child custody to inform legislative policy.

Absentee ballots requests were down 30 percent statewide at the start of this week compared with 2016, but high early voting rates might overcome that deficit.

The waste from Royal Flush Truck & Trailer Washout was, at times, too concentrated for the city’s wastewater treatment plant. The company also failed to document its land application of manure washout.

It has been more than 10 months since Wolf Carbon Solutions reported its progress to state regulators, and the company has yet to reapply for a permit in Illinois.

Two Iowa House lawmakers, a Republican and a Democrat, have made it a priority to create new laws that would curb the state’s high rate of cancer. They say it has taken a back seat to other problems.

State lawmakers should increase taxes on tobacco and restrict the use of indoor tanning beds by minors to help reduce new instances of cancer in Iowa, according to an Iowa Ideas panel of experts.

It might be up to Iowa homeowners to decide whether to replace lead water pipes that go to their houses, despite a new edict from federal regulators.

This year’s Iowa Climate Statement, signed by 184 college and university scientists, suggests individual ways to help the environment.

There might be more than 9,000 water lines to Cedar Rapids homes and businesses that need to be replaced, but city officials say the water is safe to drink.

The Driftless Water Defenders is suing the county’s board of supervisors and board of adjustment over their decisions that would allow the facility to be built and operated.

The Iowa Utilities Commission penalized Summit Carbon Solutions for obtaining land easements from another company but left the agreements intact.

Average temperatures are warming at an accelerating rate, periods of wetness and dryness are more severe, and the Midwest -- once thought to be a haven from the effects of climate change -- is looking at an altered future way of life.

Regancrest Holsteins has contaminated neighboring property and a creek tributary at least five times since 2018.

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.