Funeral Services for Charlie will be held on Wednesday, April 9, 2025 at 11:00 A.M. at the St. Michael Catholic Church in Belle Plaine, Iowa. A visitation for family and friends will be held on ...

Iowa has the nation's second-highest cancer rate and water with high nitrate content. Is there a connection? Groups pair up ...

The City of Iowa City has released its 2024 Water Quality Report, confirming that the city’s drinking water meets all federal ...

Pollution from industrial agriculture is one of the main contributors to the impairment of hundreds of river and lake ...

The Des Moines-based Harkin Institute is hosting what it calls a wellness symposium today on The Future of Clean Water. Event ...

Speakers at the Harkin Institute's wellness symposium highlighted the need for collaboration across sectors to address water quality issues. Iowa is an outlier for the wrong reasons, according to ...

A juicy storm front that moved north into Minnesota from Iowa Thursday afternoon had plenty ... Just northeast of Le Sueur, an area near Belle Plaine got 3.5 inches. KARE 11's John Zeigler says ...

He believes water quality is improving but agrees more could be done. "As much as 40% of our business," said Cooper. "And what it does is it creates uncertainty with our team here, also creates ...

Southeast Iowa Union offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. BELLE PLAINE — After more than a year of research, the Belle Plaine School Board approved in ...

In this piece — part of a series from The Gazette and the Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk — a look at a lawsuit that ...