After last year’s 49th annual event went virtual due to the pandemic, the Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Festival is marking its golden anniversary with in-person live music this weekend in Davenport. Steve Trainor, president of […]
Green will be a popular color in downtown Waterloo this weekend when Iowa Irish Fest returns. The state’s largest Celtic celebration features an entertainment lineup that includes nearly 20 music groups from across the U.S. […]
Construction of the next American warship that’ll bear the name USS Iowa is nearing completion. The 377-foot long nuclear-powered submarine is being assembled in New England, according to Tom Hudson, executive director of the Iowa’s […]
Almost all of Iowa has been under an air quality alert today as smoke from wildfires has created a hazy sky. National Weather Service meteorologist, Rod Donovon, says the upper airflow pulled the smoke in. […]
A rare bird has been spotted in northern Iowa. Erich Gilbert, assistant manager at the Union Slough National Wildlife Refuge near Titonka, says there’s a partial albino among the Canada geese that have settled in […]
Sure, it’s been sweltering in Iowa this week, but University of Iowa researchers are doing groundbreaking studies on an environment that’s beyond scorching — using data from a spacecraft that’s orbiting the sun. U-I physics […]
Dusty Hill, the bearded bassist from ZZ Top who died this week, made one of his last public appearances in Manchester, Iowa. “Our hearts just go out to the family and the bandmates and the […]
What the locals call Old Highway 20 across northern Iowa is now a designated route through Delaware County as part of an effort to revive the roadway nationwide, and to help small towns and small […]
With last year’s derecho, Iowans learned the hard way that highly destructive weather events can be something other than tornadoes or floods. Technically, the derecho was a severe thunderstorm, the most destructive thunderstorm in U.S. […]
A Waterloo man described by the judge as a “very dangerous person” has been sentenced to eight years in prison. Twenty-eight-year-old Trenton Sliekers pleaded guilty in federal court to being a felon in possession of […]
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