Late in July 1928 a party of Royal Canadian Mounted Police set out for the interior of northern Saskatchewan Province looking for four University of Iowa students who had disappeared.
While Iowa takes most of the blame, nutrient loading of Great Plains waterways that flow into the Missouri River, then to the Mississippi River and eventually to the Gulf of Mexico are causing a literal dead zone in the Gulf that is steadily increasing in size.
The Justice Department announced a 22-count indictment Thursday against a Nebraska railroad services company and its owners related to an April 2015 explosion that killed two workers and seriously injured a third.
At most services, Father McManus moves quickly through the announcements --- typically covering such things as the coming Christ the King Church sweet corn festival, the signup for the fall retreat, or a new book study group that soon will begin. This past weekend, however, the announcements took a
The Iowa Center for Public Affairs Journalism-IowaWatch has received two significant grants for general operating expenses, with a matching challenge attached to one.
Ken Parker was baptized in a predominantly black church in Jacksonville, Florida, his tattoos – a large swastika, one Confederate flag, a Ku Klux Klan insignia and an Iron Cross – immersed in holy water. His story is one of many revealed in a multi-story, nationwide News21 journalism project.
More than 2.4 million crimes, whose victims suspect were motivated by hate, were committed across the United States in the five years between 2012 and 2016, according to a News21 analysis of the federal National Crime Victimization Survey, which interviews tens of thousands of Americans annually.
The most recent Federal Bureau of Investigation data for 2016, issued in late 2017, showed 12 Iowa law enforcement agencies reporting 17 hate crimes in Iowa.
Eastern Iowans interested in politics are trying to have civil conversations about this issues dividing them. They've joined an nationwide movement called Better Angels, a bipartisan citizen’s effort to bring Republicans and Democrats together to talk to one another in a civil manner.
How did a small town Iowa woman earn the title “African Sheep Queen” in the early 1900s? By becoming owner of a 6,000-acre sheep ranch in Norvalspont, South
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The Trump Administration’s ability to enact the voters’ will is impeded by a continual stream of nationwide court
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Stephen J. Berry, whose push for journalists to work thoroughly and ethically led him to co-found the Iowa Center for Public Affairs Journalism-IowaWatch, will be the annual Celebrating a Free Press and Open Government Banquet’s guest speaker in Des Moine
