In northeast Iowa, a wispy stand of trees looks out of place. It is surrounded by crop fields on the north side of a ...

Anyone can join an all-volunteer effort that keep track of how much nitrate and nitrite are getting into Iowa's water ...

Trees are down, broken limbs cover the ground, and massive root balls are exposed. A lot of that damage is on public hunting land. The Department of Natural Resources keeps pieces of property there, ...

Rich Gradoville visits the streams near his home in Johnston, Iowa, not for fishing or recreating, but to test the nitrate concentration of the flowing water.

In a separate case, the Supreme Court also ruled for a DNR officer who fatally shot a man during a standoff eight years ago.

A bill shielding pesticide manufacturers from lawsuits joined a long list of casualties of the Iowa Legislature’s second “funnel” deadline. But the bill cutoff has left lawmakers closer to ...

Susan Crawford, a Dane County Circuit Court judge since 2018, won a pivotal Wisconsin Supreme Court race, securing a 4-3 liberal majority. Defeating former state Attorney General Brad Schimel, ...

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer is taking the fight over Medicaid cuts deep into Republican territory, visiting ...

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources has announced prescribed burns this spring at wildlife management areas managed by its Maquoketa Wildlife Unit in Scott, Clinton, Jackson, Jones ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. For more than a decade, Iowans have gathered at the Kellerton Grasslands Bird Conservation Area at ...

School districts in the Iowa Quad-Cities have begun their annual public hearing process for proposed tax levy rates in fiscal year 2026. Beginning last budget year, Iowa public school districts ...

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources announced Friday the source of dark, murky water in a drainage ditch near the North Raccoon River was identified as a mistaken dumping of wastewater from a ...