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The project — approved in December — will bring the first 765-kV transmission line to the Upper Midwest. It is part of the largest electric grid expansion project in U.S. history.

Cara Matteson took over as Linn County’s sustainability director in April 2024, succeeding former director Tamara Marcus

Between raising kids, crops and cattle, working to find balance in farm life can be challenging for mothers who farm.

Charles Benbrook told an Iowa City audience this week that the state’s agriculture is too pesticide intensive, and the chemicals are “harming the soil, harming public health, and it is harming fish populations and birds and the deer.”

The potential for flooding events in the region has decreased even more in the past two weeks, the National Weather Service’s Quad Cities Bureau says

Destiny Magee, Eastern Iowa Land Stewardship Assistant with the Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation, works closely educating summer interns and volunteers

With the help of a city grant, Oaknoll has diverted thousands of pounds of food waste from the landfill to compost

More snow on the way to Eastern Iowa on Friday and Saturday.

In a 1 p.m. update, the National Weather Service predicted the Cedar Rapids, Maquoketa and Dubuque areas would receive an additional 4 to 6 inches of snow. Iowa City and the Quad Cities were projected to get about 3 more inches of snow.

A winter storm warning will be in effect from 6 a.m. Wednesday through 3 a.m. Thursday. Parts of Eastern Iowa could see up to 7 inches of snow.

The highest potential for naturally occurring hydrogen is in the Midcontinent Rift system, which runs through central parts of the state. But what does this mean for clean energy?

The number of donors to Iowa’s Fish and Wildlife Fund has declined by 50 percent in the last 20 years, the DNR reports.

Tax exemptions provide an incentive to qualifying landowners to preserve their woodlands, but bills introduced in the Iowa Legislature last year and again this year seek to change the state’s Forest and Fruit Tree Reserve program.

Sundown Mountain Resort in Dubuque is a snowy oasis in a state that’s been experiencing one of its least snowy winters in more than 130 years. But not all weather-dependent businesses can manufacture their own snow.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture anticipates egg prices will increase an additional 20 percent this year.