Bruce Lear: Data centers need clear and enforceable rules, or Iowa small towns and rural life will be swallowed.

The rolling “Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room” stopped in Des Moines, Iowa City and Cedar Rapids last week. On Sunday, Raygun hosted the bookmobile at its CR retail store, as ...

“Back in November, I signed up to be a sacrificial lamb,” Chris Jones, the Democratic candidate for Secretary of Agriculture, told the overflow crowd at Captain Roy’s bar and restaurant in Des Moines ...

A Trump-appointed judge also said Americans have no “constitutional right to truthful information” during a public health crisis.

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

Thermal drone footage shows DataOne — the Microsoft-backed AI data center in Vineland — is powering its operations with dozens of unpermitted generators

Kicking off the final stretch of his campaign for clean water in Iowa, Democratic candidate for Iowa Secretary of Agriculture and Land Stewardship Chris Jones will paddle more than 100 miles down the ...

Lawsuit accused company of discharging hot water, which can dissolve oxygen and stress fish, as well as other aquatic wildlife and birds.

With statewide monitoring limited, Prairie Rivers Network researchers tested 10 locations in 2025, finding pesticides over 200 times and identifying 18 different kinds of pesticides at the sites.

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Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird said Monday at the Iowa State Fair that the state should do everything it can to prevent illegal voting, including turning over voter data to the U.S. Department of J...

The Senate Agriculture Committee failed to pass its version of the five-year farm bill last week because of an argument over nutrition funding. Majority Leader John Thune, R-SD, instinctively blamed ...

I am Midwestern, and that means when I hear tornado sirens my instinct is to walk out to my back porch and stare at the sky. Every single one of my neighbors does it, too. I look forward to storm seas...

Former President Barack Obama endorsed Josh Turek on Wednesday. The endorsement came in a Turek campaign video, featuring Obama and the Democratic nominee for Iowa’s open U.S. Senate seat playing bask...

An analysis from Environmental Working Group (EWG) mapped 15,309 animal feeding operations in Iowa, which is several thousand more than what is tracked and monitored by the state. The group utilized s...

President Donald Trump is sharply reducing the size of two national monuments in Utah. The move to shrink Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments by about 90% unravels protections established by former presidents for areas with unique archaeological and historical features.

Livestock grazing is allowed across 240 million acres of federal land. Our investigation revealed the subsidies propping up ranching, its impact on the environment and the politics underpinning the sy...

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Maj. Jason Watson, who was in uniform, was arrested during a protest that followed a news conference on Wednesday.

Residents attend planning meetings to voice concerns about Morgan Valley Gas Power plant and potential data center developments

During Tuesday’s meeting, the group spent four hours combing line by line through a final recommendation draft.

By Paul Deaton, Solon On June 18, the Cedar Rapids Gazette reported the Iowa nuclear task force wrapped up its work, saying, “Task force members reiterated the importance of community education on the...

U.S. Department of Energy Deputy Secretary spoke about the importance of data centers and a "nuclear renaissance."

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The Supreme Court ruled 7-2 to restrict thousands of lawsuits claiming Bayer, the parent company of Monsanto, had a duty to warn consumers about potential cancer risks from its popular weed killer Rou...

No one man should have all that power.

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Volunteers with the organization say the power plant will negatively impact the environment without providing any community benefits.

With techno-optimist friends like these...