The Solid Waste Agency has opened the Mount Trashmore trails and overlook for the 2022 season, though hours of operation are weather permitting. Weather-related closures always are posted on the Mount Trashmore website.
Wild ducks that are prominent carriers of the highly contagious avian influenza are migrating through Iowa in their greatest numbers this month.
There’s more than what meets the eye at six sites in the Wickiup Hill Natural Area in Toddville — all with a different story unique to the people who lived there thousands of years before Iowa was discovered by European-American settlers.
The public will being seeing seedlings as post-derecho plans take root at the historic Cedar Rapids Brucemore estate.
Compost and wood chips are now available in Iowa City and Cedar Rapids, though demand is high in the spring and summer seasons.
A Coe College graduate who was the first in his Afghan village to learn how to read and write has spent the past 20 years supporting a school in his native country — one that educates girls as well as boys.
A 2021 law change that allows Iowa to fine farmers when weedkiller — particularly dicamba — drifts to neighbors’ fields is on hold, at least until later this year, as the state develops new rules for private and commercial applicators.
Massive losses in international enrollment have decimated the University of Iowa’s need for English as a Second Language services – compelling big cuts.
Linn County Supervisors will discuss and vote on allocating $11 million in American Rescue Plan Act funding next week.
Two teenagers accused of killing a Fairfield high school Spanish teacher had their appeals declined by the Iowa Supreme Court on Thursday. They had appealed a decision that would allow the public and the news media to attend a hearing about sending their case to Juvenile Court.
Wells Fargo gives a $650,000 grant to Iowa Legal Aid’s project that provides legal representation and rental assistance to those in eviction situations.
The name “Stephen Norman” may not ring a bell around Eastern Iowa, but plenty have known and loved him by his radio name, Ric Swann. Swann, for years part of Cedar Rapids' KZIA radio’s Schulte & Swann morning team, died of cancer early Wednesday in Ohio. He was 62.
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