Olivia Cohen

Four Iowa business groups are advocating for a reform of how both residential and business electric rates are set in the state.

Republican incumbent Brad Sherman is not running for re-election in the district that represents Tiffin, Swisher, Oxford and all of Iowa County.

No one has found a rusty patched bumblebee nest in Iowa since at least 2017, when the species was listed as federally endangered. That changed when a Johnson County Conservation employee heard a buzzing sound while doing yard work this summer.

McLoud Run has seen more than a dozen fish kills since 1997, more than half due to water main breaks that released treated drinking water into the stream. Now, Cedar Rapids is planning to install water pressure sensors to monitor for breaks that could kill fish in Iowa’s only urban trout stream.

Inflation Reduction Act boosting that sector in Midwest

The invasive insect was first found in Iowa in 2010.

Drought conditions are continuing to spread in Iowa, despite this year starting as the ninth wettest year on record after an unusually rainy spring.

But the frost should not affect the harvest, unless crops were planted late in the season.

The Iowa Department of Transportation has awarded about $16.2 million to add 28 fast-charging stations for electric vehicles along Iowa’s interstates, the first awards in the $51 million Iowa expects to receive in federal funds for the stations.

The project will include recreation enhancements at Cedar Lake and the Alliant Energy LightLine pedestrian and bicyclist bridge.

Within the last 18 months, both turbines on a Cedar County farm have been struck by lightning — and now, one of them twice.

Orange and red are bursting into Iowa’s fall landscape, but the colors this year may be muted by dry conditions. Find out when colors are expected to peak, and where best to see them.

Prohibition, a mammoth blizzard, herbicide drift damaged Iowa vines during 20th century

This September was the driest on record in 152 years

The harvest season, cooler temperatures and deer entering their mating season prompt more deer movements this fall.