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A central Iowa plant could soon begin producing jet fuel from poultry fat.
A pilot program launched this month will help Iowa residents who have unused medications stashed in medicine cabinets, kitchen drawers and elsewhere around their homes safely dispose of the drugs for free and in a more environmentally friendly way.
Frank Lloyd Wright enthusiasts are claiming victory in their effort to restore the architect's last standing hotel, a northern Iowa landmark that has fallen apart over the past few decades.
Federal officials have fired some employees and reprimanded others at a central Iowa laboratory campus after allegations that veterinary credentials were used to purchase low-cost medications for themselves and relatives, a USDA spokeswoman said Thursday.
Same-sex couples in Iowa began holding hastily planned weddings Monday as the state became the third to allow gay marriage, a leap that even some supporters find hard to grasp in the nation's heartland.
The owner and former managers of a northeast Iowa kosher slaughterhouse have been granted a delay in trial on thousands of state child labor charges.
A supervisor arrested after a massive immigration raid at a kosher slaughterhouse was sentenced to three years in federal prison on Thursday for his part in hiring illegal immigrants.
Iowa's social-services agency acknowledged Tuesday that it looked into a company's treatment of its mentally disabled meatpacking workers as early as the 1970s, but decided it lacked the jurisdiction or enough evidence to act.
Debi Joy Olson freely admits that she stalked her ex-husband across the country, then stabbed him to death last summer at a mall in Davenport.
The gay marriage debate moves to the Midwest this week as the Iowa Supreme Court hears arguments in a challenge to the state's ban on same-sex marriage.
Want an example of the change Barack Obama is bringing to the country? Check out cookie sales at Baby Boomers Cafe in Des Moines.
The Chapter 11 bankruptcy case for a kosher meatpacking company accused of immigration and child-labor violations at its Iowa plant should be heard in that state, not New York, Iowa's labor commissioner said Monday.
Six farm employees were charged with animal abuse and neglect Wednesday in connection with a video obtained by an animal-rights group that showed workers abusing pigs.
The operators of a farm where workers were secretly videotaped abusing pigs said Thursday they were launching an investigation and those responsible would be fired.
Iowa Gov. Chet Culver denounced a kosher meatpacking plant accused of child labor violations, echoing Upton Sinclair's disdain of cruelty toward immigrants.
No one disputes that Michael Mette punched Jake Gothard, fracturing his nose, cheek and jaw, during a drunken altercation in Dubuque two years ago.
Immigration reform advocates and religious leaders hope hundreds of people will descend on a small Iowa town this month for a rally in support of workers arrested in a large raid at a meatpacking plant.
A Florida woman followed her ex-husband across the country and fatally stabbed him inside an Iowa mall where he was working for a traveling circus set up in the parking lot, police said Thursday.
Two supervisors at an Iowa meatpacking plant that was raided by federal immigration agents in May were arrested and charged with encouraging people to live in the United States illegally.
An Iowa police chief who was charged with sexually assaulting a woman at a county club bar has been fired, the mayor announced Tuesday.
The American Red Cross said on Monday that its Disaster Relief Fund is wiped out and it's being forced to borrow money to help flood victims throughout the Midwest.
For the second time in 15 years, Keith Aubuchon found himself packing his belongings and evacuating his home to escape a "100-year" flood of the Mississippi River. He returned and remodeled his house after the flood of 1993. This time, he doesn't know if it will be worth coming back.
Rising water from the Cedar River forced the evacuation of a downtown hospital Friday after residents of more than 3,000 homes fled for higher ground. A railroad bridge collapsed, and 400 city blocks were under water.
The Cedar River poured over its banks Thursday, forcing the evacuation of more than 3,000 homes, causing a railroad bridge to collapse and leaving cars underwater on downtown streets.
The police chief of an Iowa town and his assistant chief turned themselves in to authorities on Friday to face charges they sexually assaulted a woman in a country club bar.
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