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We welcome photojournalist Elizabeth Wood to our staff in sharing her unique perspective of eastern Iowa as we look at Gazette photojournalists’ best photos in the first half of April 2025

Chronic wasting disease, which is fatal to deer, has been confirmed in 29 of Iowa’s 99 counties, according to the latest data from the Iowa Department of Natural Resources.

The fish kill in March in Dry Run Creek spanned for about 10 miles and was caused by runoff from Dale Humpal Dairy in Winneshiek County, according to the Iowa Department of Natural Resources.

In 1947, Cedar Rapids’ Killian Co. brought “the real Easter bunny” into town via the Chicago and Northwestern railroad.

Only election results decided by a margin of 1 percent or less in Iowa would be recounted under legislation headed to Gov. Kim Reynolds’ desk.

U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley said Monday he’s not worried by China’s unusually large purchase of soybeans from Brazil this month because President Donald Trump is working to protect U.S. farmers by reducing tariffs that will benefit them.

For a third consecutive year, Iowa lawmakers are trying to agree on legislation that would determine how more than $50 million in opioid settlement funds to the state should be spent.

A Cedar Rapids man was arrested Monday on charges that he cut and stole a piece of fiber wire from behind his neighbor’s house, cutting off internet and cable services to two neighborhoods in southwest Cedar Rapids.