In this installment of Curious Iowa, a Gazette series that answers readers’ questions about our state and its culture, we look at parts of Iowa’s history to understand why its landscape looks how it ...

When you fertilize a lawn in the fall, grass plants are in a mode of taking nutrients down into their roots for storage — ...

Between two corn fields in central Iowa, Lee Tesdell walks through a corridor of native prairie grasses and wildflowers. Crickets trill as dickcissels, small brown birds with yellow chests ...

Farmers in the heartland are restoring swaths of the prairie with government help. The aim is to reduce nutrient runoff from ...

An Iowa native who lives near Tampa is preparing for the impending storm. Chris Hammond, an Oelwein native, lives roughly an hour east of Tampa in Polk County, where there are currently no ...

Sikowis Nobiss is the force behind Great Plains Action Society, a nonprofit working to bring land back to Indigenous peoples ...

Johnson County community members got hands-on with wildlife Sunday in the first-ever “Wings and Wild Things Festival.” Taking ...

Iowa native and "American Pickers" co-star Frank Fritz died Monday. Fritz was on the antique hunting show for over a decade, according to USA TODAY, and he also owned an antique store in Savanna ...

REALLY BIG CONCERN THERE. COMING UP A BIT LATER IN OUR NEWSCAST, AN IOWA NATIVE WHO MOVED TO THE TAMPA AREA IN MARCH TELLS US SHE IS GETTING PREPARED. ALICE PERETTI WENT THROUGH HURRICANE HELENE ...