After three years, people will be able to start camping at Red Haw State Park in Chariton again. The park has been closed for ...

Severe thunderstorms rolled across the Midwest Friday, bringing rounds of damaging wind gusts, torrential rains and even a ...

Kind of mind blown,” recalls Josh Olney. “I kind of never thought this would happen to us, but things happen that you don’t expect.” ...

Many of Iowa’s trees are struggling in the long-running drought. Joe Herring, a district forester with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources in Iowa Falls, says some insects are causing ...

A Montgomery County sheriff's deputy who was evacuating a campground became trapped by a fallen tree as a tornado made its path in Red Oak, Iowa on May 21, 2024. (Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office) ...

Peace Tree Brewing is experiencing a revival at an eastern Iowa brewery. Blonde Fatale is on tap at Backpocket Brewing, along with two other classics in the Peace Tree legacy. Backpocket Brewing ...

A Fourth of July celebration took a devastating turn for a family in Forest City when their house caught fire, leaving them ...

Winter is the perfect time to prune oak trees. Oak trees are special for many reasons: they’re Iowa’s state tree, they’re important to our ecosystem and — they shouldn’t be pruned during ...

The holiday season is evergreen trees’ time to shine. But one tree — the eastern redcedar — has come to be considered a nuisance as it spreads across the Great Plains.

Iowa has an estimated 50 million ash trees in its forested areas and 3 million in its urban areas, Vitosh said. Around 16 percent of public trees in Iowa communities are ash trees, though the ...

In traditional Iowa fashion, don't expect warm weather to last. Thunderstorms and a possible blizzard are coming, the National Weather Service warns.

This week, we meet Eastern red cedar or Juniperus virginiana, one of the most common coniferous trees in Indiana. This evergreen tree, also known as aromatic cedar, is unique in that it has both scale ...