Olivia Cohen

The Iowa Utilities Commission this week approved increases to the gas and electric rates paid by Alliant Energy’s Iowa customers. The increase is less than the company proposed last year.

Around 1,250 fish were killed this week when a broken water main released chlorinated drinking water into McLoud Run, a trout stream in Cedar Rapids. It is the second time this year that chlorinated water has reached the stream through a broken main.

About 65 percent of the state is currently experiencing abnormal dryness, up 22 percent from last week, according to data from Thursday’s update of the U.S. Drought Monitor.

University of Iowa professor worked on a study measuring the dusty plumes from gravel roads after cars drive by.

The fall 2024 session’s “host counties” are Linn and Johnson counties

A farm in Grundy County is provided space for researchers from the University of Iowa and Iowa State University to test a system that slows the flow of water under grassways in fields, allowing sediment to absorb nutrients before the water exits the field

Since July, Willis Dady Works has taken in 100 old mattresses. There, they are diassembled, and their pieces are recycled or repurposed. The program provides work for people who need it, and it diverts mattresses from landfills, where they present unique challenges.

The National Weather Service is warning that “dangerously hot conditions” will persist through Tuesday, with heat indexes reaching 110 to 115 degrees.

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources has successfully trapped and collared only one of the rare and elusive gray foxes in the state. Now researchers are expanding their pilot program to find out why the gray fox population is declining.

When Johnson County Conservation found a new plant growing at FW Kent Park, they were excited. But closer inspection revealed the plant could pose a problem. Now, the department is looking at a years-long process of eradicating the plant from the park.

Owner Nordex, spurred by federal tax incentives, says it will hire about 100 workers there.

Decades after turkeys were reintroduced to Iowa and hunting returned, fewer hens and poults are surviving, which could spell trouble for the bird’s future.

The nature preserve is a “multi-generational advancement to the community, county conversation deputy director says.

U of I partnered with three other universities and the National Science Foundation to study extreme weather in Midwest agriculture

Oversight for C6-Zero’s clean up is completed after the manufacturing plant experienced an explosion and fire in December 2022.