While dry conditions have improved across much of the state, moderate drought still grips portions of southwest Iowa.

Years of drought and record severe weather last year have cut crop yields, but recent rain totals could improve conditions.

The portion of the state with no drought has more than doubled since early June. See the newest Iowa Drought Monitor map to ...

Friday the 13th was a lucky day this June for the southwest Iowa city of Avoca, pop. 1,700. Restaurants along Main Street had ...

SALAS. KCCI EIGHT NEWS, IOWA’S NEWS LEADER. HERE IN IOWA RIGHT NOW, THE DROUGHT SITUATION IS GETTING WORSE. THIS IS A LOOK AT THE LATEST U.S. DROUGHT MONITOR FOR OUR STATE. YOU CAN SEE ALL OF ...

The rest of Iowa now ranges from Zone 4b, with a temperature threshold of minus-25 degrees, to Zone 6a in the extreme southeast and southwest, with a minus-10 degree threshold.

Plan 1, released Thursday by a bipartisan committee, puts 44 counties stretching from Howard and Chickasaw counties in northeast Iowa to Freemont County in the state’s southwest corner.

The boil order could be lifted today for residents of five counties in southwest Iowa if a state test comes back negative for any issues in their water system.

DES MOINES, Iowa (KCCI) - The EF-1 tornado was more than 1.5 miles wide at times with winds up to 110mph. The tornado that tracked across portions of Fremont and Page counties during Thursday ...