The state of Iowa is failing to warn people to cut back on eating locally caught fish contaminated with mercury and other pollutants at levels the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency finds too risky, an IowaWatch study has found. More than 330,000 people a year buy licenses to fish Iowa’s waters, a
Emily Zimmerman knew things weren't right in her hometown of Marinette, Wis., on Monday afternoon as soon as she checked Facebook. Zimmerman, senior in biology, checked the social media site on her cell phone while waiting for the CyRide to take her home in Ames. But not everything she read was reli
For nearly a decade, the word organic has stood for all that is wholesome and pure to the health-conscious consumer. But an emerging movement of farmers who consider themselves the real organic purists are saying their methods go “beyond organic.” Although still in its infancy, adherents to beyond o
The Iowa Independent, a non-profit news organization, is reporting today that, the Knights of Columbus, a Catholic fraternal society founded in New Haven in 1881, has funneled more than
This report tells the story of Anthony's life and how a childhood decision has affected his entire life thus far. A federal law requiring juvenile sex offenders to register as predators for life does more harm than good.
Around 1 p.m. on a cold, gray Oct. 10, volunteer searcher Merry Thies snapped her cell phone shut and relayed the news to Dessalines Similhomme: “They found a body
