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 ...

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 ...

The Cedar Rapids native was a great inside operator, making 62.7% of her shots from the field last season. She has proven that in Iowa's 111-83 victory over Penn State on Feb. 9 when she scored a ...