Storms will form this evening ahead of a boundary stretching from Minnesota into southeast South Dakota and Nebraska. These will travel southeast into Iowa after 5 p.m. Some of these cells could pack ...

A ban on watering lawns has been issued in the Des Moines metro area for the first time to avoid a potential water crisis due to high concentrations of nitrates.

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Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signed two disaster proclamations for Scott County as one of several counties impacted by flooding and Monday's storm. The proclamations open grant assistance and case ...

It's a different kind of work from his day job teaching music and directing bands at Waverly's middle and high schools. "It's nice, relaxing work for me," said Rohlfs, who lives on an acreage near ...

LAMONT - A band of heavy rains led to flash flooding Friday and river flooding ... In Oelwein, two creeks swelled out of their banks and shut down Iowa Highway 150. The water was deep enough ...

In and around Wichita in south-central Kansas, firefighters made about 70 water rescues after heavy rains caused flash flooding, Robb Lawson, a local National Weather Service meteorologist said.

Town Supervisor Lee James said a nearly weeklong emergency order banning water vessels on  Cuba Lake due to flood-related debris and pollutants will be rescinded at 5 p.m. today. “We kindly request ...

Batches of rain will move through eastern Iowa to start the week, bringing beneficial water to the area. Some heavy rain is possible which could lead to localized flooding. On top of that ...

Amid the ruins of concrete blocks, collapsed asphalt and a 4-foot drop where a road used to be are thousands of fossils from the creatures that lived here 375 million years ago, when Iowa was a ...