Welcome to Backbone, Iowa’s first state park and still one of its most dramatic. The park gets its name from a steep, narrow ridge of bedrock that looks like the spine of some enormous creature from ...

These ancient rocks tell the story of when central Iowa was covered by a shallow sea, long before corn became the state’s unofficial mascot. The park’s history as a public recreation area goes back to ...

The 5.2 magnitude quake struck at 1:08 p.m. Eastern time Monday, April 14, with its epicenter in San Diego County, about 2.5 miles south of the town of Julian, according to the United States ...

One Iowa man plans to spend his lottery win on a home improvement project with his dog in mind. Photo from Iowa Lottery One dog in Iowa soon will receive an upgrade to her backyard — thanks to ...

Night - Cloudy. Winds variable at 6 to 11 mph (9.7 to 17.7 kph). The overnight low will be 50 °F (10 °C). Mostly sunny with a high of 54 °F (12.2 °C). Winds W at 11 to 22 mph (17.7 to 35.4 kph ...

On Iowa Politics is a weekly news and analysis podcast that aims to re-create the kinds of conversations that happen when you get political reporters from across Iowa together after the day’s ...

A newly opened Ukrainian bakery, named Piece and Freedom, is located on 301 Main ... bakeries at different farmer’s market locations in Iowa. Shortly after combining their bakeries at the ...

Brothers vocalist-guitarist Taylor Goldsmith (right) and drummer Griffin Goldsmith, now the two remaining members of Dawes, will return to Eastern Iowa next ... the indie rock act to stick to ...

Highlights: Ventura sits on the northwestern shore of Clear Lake, a popular northern Iowa lake with a town of the same name on the lake's northeastern shore. Clear Lake is a popular spot for ...

A University of Tokyo team has said that it has managed to rapidly identify from photographs the size, location and shape of some 200,000 rocks on two asteroids using artificial intelligence ...

Before joining Investopedia, David Marino-Nachison was an editor at The Wall Street Journal focused mainly on daily markets and investing news. He also worked on The Journal’s publishing desk ...

Highlights: The highlight of the day will be a 15-mile trip through southern Minnesota, the first time RAGBRAI has left Iowa's borders. Wahpeton, on the western shore of West Lake Okoboji ...