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LANSING – A corporate pork producer’s insistence on constructing confinement buildings in an environmentally sensitive area of Allamakee County could …

NORTH LIBERTY – Hundreds of seventh-graders spent Wednesday serving their community by cleaning up its natural environment. ‘It teaches us …

ELKADER – Airborne silica particles resulting from the proposed expansion of the Pattison sand mine pose a ‘low risk to …

DYSART – Gov. Terry Branstad said Wednesday he remains hopeful that the Legislature will – before it adjourns perhaps by …

For the first time in 108 years, Iowa has a documented nest occupied by swift, fierce and graceful merlins. ‘This …

Coggon will receive more than $4 million in federal assistance for the construction of a new wastewater treatment plant, the …

SOLON – The Bur Oak Land Trust on Wednesday announced the kickoff of the public phase of its campaign to …

QUASQUETON – In a sea of bare soil and drab crop residue, Mike Fangman’s rye-covered fields stand out like emerald …

Like gold prospectors, morel hunters often dream of the big strike. Finding the mother lode is our version of the …

With the approach Thursday of the anniversary of the state’s bird flu outbreak, Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey outlined …

Johnson County has led the state in each of the past five years in the number of reported cases of …

Monarch butterflies could face quasi-extinction in the next 20 years, according to Iowa State University researcher John Pleasants. There is, …

Iowa’s seven-month warm spell is likely to continue at least through early summer, meteorologists say. Average temperatures in Iowa, with …

Gobs of the universal fish bait emerged from their burrows Wednesday night under ideal conditions to demonstrate how they earned …

ELKADER – Embattled Clayton County Auditor Dennis Freitag said Wednesday he plans to retire May 22 on his 62nd birthday. …