Each Thanksgiving we like to bring out this news quiz about Thanksgiving weekend football at Iowa colleges, given that the University of Iowa, Iowa State University, University of Northern Iowa
The growing number of aging Iowans means more are dealing with Alzheimer's disease. Some 64,000 in the state suffer from this disease at a time when Iowa is tightening its Medicaid system, which pays for long-term nursing home care for Alzheimer's patients.
They were born in the United States and consider themselves full-blooded Americans. But the fact that their parents immigrated to this country means first-generation Americans often have to explain their ethnicity, and citizenship.
This IowaWatch Connection podcast examines Iowa's tax breaks for new businesses after a recent deal to bring a new Apple Inc. center to Waukee. Good deal or not?
As many as 63 million people – nearly a fifth of the country – from rural central California to the boroughs of New York City, were exposed to potentially unsafe water more than once during the past decade, according to a News21 investigation of 680,000 water quality and monitoring violations from t
In this podcast of an IowaWatch Connection program that aired on radio stations Aug. 11-13 -- before veterans day at the 2017 Iowa State Fair in Des Moines -- we hear from those whose jobs are to help veterans and tell their stories.
A University of Iowa’s Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research and College of Education project will help Iowa school teachers apply Next Generation Science Standards in class that let students decide for themselves if climate change exists.
Knowing where your water comes from is one thing. Knowing what is in your water is another. Three of Cedar Falls’ wells – 3, 9 and 10 – consistently have recorded high nitrate levels.
Think your identity is safe on the internet? Think again. This report reveals the work of reporters Madison Wilson, Erich Bogner, Clayton Bowers, Alex Kirkpatrick, Stephanie Woodruff, Ashley Smith and Hunter Hillygus.
The IowaWatch Connection radio program collected seven awards, including two for first place, for large market radio reporting at the 2017 Iowa Broadcast News Association convention in Johnston, Iowa, on Saturday, April 22.
