by Matt Kelley | Apr 24, 2024 | News, Outdoors
In honor of Arbor Day, community leaders in Dubuque will break ground Saturday on what will eventually grow to become a community orchard. Laura Roussell, executive director of Dubuque Trees Forever, says they’ll plant a few fruit trees this weekend with plans...
by Matt Kelley | Apr 24, 2024 | Health & Medicine, News
One of the world’s most deadly forms of cancer is the focus of an event in central Iowa this weekend that will gather survivors from across the state, as well as advocates and loved ones of those who’ve died from it. The Purple Stride Iowa walk will be...
by Matt Kelley | Apr 23, 2024 | Human Interest, News
A new study by the Iowa Food Bank Association finds more than 27-million pounds of food was “rescued” last year by the six Feeding America food banks that serve Iowa. Annette Hacker, spokeswoman for the Des Moines-based Food Bank of Iowa, says an...
by Matt Kelley | Apr 22, 2024 | News
This morning’s commute was a lot faster for some northeast Iowans. The Black Hawk Bridge over the Mississippi River at Lansing reopened over the weekend, connecting Lansing with Crawford County, Wisconsin. The bridge had to be closed in late February after two...
by Matt Kelley | Apr 22, 2024 | Human Interest, News, Outdoors
If you were to try counting all of the trees on the University of Iowa campus on this Earth Day, you’d need to be able to count to eight-thousand. The man who leads the team that cares for them all realizes he’s one of the lucky people who’s found...
