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MARION – The launchpad is prepared for a pair of projects aimed at making Linn County the epicenter of both …

QUASQUETON – A $220,000 restoration of the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed boathouse at Cedar Rock State Park is to burnish a …

At a time when grass typically goes dormant, providing relief from regular mowing, Eastern Iowans are scrambling to keep up …

Iowa’s corn crop – a record, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture projections – may not be as good as …

A year ago in this space, I recounted my first year’s disappointing experience with milkweed and monarch butterflies, and expressed …

ELKADER – Freelance writer, photographer and lecturer Larry Stone of rural Elkader has received the 2016 Jade of Chiefs Award …

ELKADER – The Clayton County Planning and Zoning Commission unanimously recommended approval Tuesday of a request to rezone 746 acres …

Don’t girls like to camp anymore? Mixed reactions have met the recent announcement by the Girl Scouts of Eastern Iowa …

Mike Jacobs’ extensive trout angling experience in an earlier life has served him well in his grown-up life as a …

ANAMOSA – Gov. Terry Branstad said Wednesday that neither body of the Iowa Legislature supports a sales tax increase to …

MOLINE, ILLINOIS — What may be the world’s largest mussel relocation project got underway Tuesday below the Interstate 74 bridge …

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources has approved Reicks View Farms’ plan to build a swine confinement facility in an …

BUCHANAN — History and nature collide in a quiet, remote field in the tiny, unincorporated Cedar County community of Buchanan. …

To me the river looked anything but fishy at first light Saturday as we launched my nephew Sam Patterson’s flat-bottomed …

LAKE DELHI – Residents of this once-and-again lakeside community, all too familiar with untoward weather, scrambled for shelter Saturday afternoon …