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CWS – Community Water System. A public water system that supplies water to the same population year-round. NTNC – Non Transient Water System. A public water system that regularly supplies water to at least 25 of the same people at least six months per year. Examples are schools, factories, office buildings, and hospitals which have their own water systems.

(Des Moines) -- State Climatologist Justin Glisan is looking back at a topsy-turvy summer of 2024 in terms of weather conditions. Glisan says cooler-than-normal temperatures were one dominant feature. In fact, he says the unseasonably cool August were a highlight of the Iowa State Fair. "Temperatures were like 2-to-4 degrees...

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - September is Hunger Action Month: a time to recognize the issue of food insecurity that continues to plague people across the country. Food Bank for the Heartland is working to fight it. The food bank serves people in 93 counties across Nebraska and western Iowa. Assistant...

(Radio Iowa) – The Iowa Lottery’s Chief Revenue Officer says the organization’s drop in sales in the first two months of the fiscal year is a trend the lottery industry is facing nationwide. Jon Roth says scratch ticket sales nationwide are down three-point-two percent so far this year. “Scratch tickets are the mainstay of lottery industry. They represent anywhere from 60 to 67 percent of sales for the lottery industry. So it’s important. So when those numbers are down, that’s an indicator overall the industry is still facing challenges,” Roth says. Roth says sales of lotto games nationwide in the past 52 weeks are down more than 17 percent.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (KCRG) - In a new report from the CDC, obesity remains high across the United States. The CDC says Iowa is one of 23 states where one in every three adults is considered obese, in 2013 there were no states with that classification. The same report says obesity affects one in five adults across the country.

With India taking over the top spot in population and its growing economy, it behooves the state of Iowa to conduct trade trips there to help promote the products we produce here in the state. Recently Governor Reynolds conducted such a trip, and Iowa Ag Secretary Mike Naig accompanied her. It was a chance for him to promote our agricultural goods.

Iowa Time Machine ⏰: On September 26, 1866, Henry Scholte Nollen, a critical early leader of Iowa’s insurance industry, was born in Pella. A pivotal leader of the Insurance Association (now Principal Financial) and Equitable Life Insurance, Nollen and his younger brother Gerard left an indelible imprint on one of Iowa’s most important industries.

The Purchase Moore Hamann Bacon promotion initially launched in September 2023 and quickly went viral across social media. A photo of Iowa State Cyclone football players Myles Purchase, Tyler Moore, Tommy Hamann and Caleb Bacon strategically posed with a large ham and huge pile of bacon was seen by more than 20 million people on X. The partnership gained national attention, earning the Best NIL Deal of 2023 award from the Sports Business Journal.

Iowa biodiesel producers submitted a letter urging the U.S. Department of Treasury to take immediate action in issuing safe harbor guidance for the 45Z Clean Fuel Production Credit. While the department is working to finalize the 45Z rules, most observers believe they will not be completed until well after January 1, 2025. The lack of safe harbor guidance is impacting the biodiesel supply chain today.

(KMAland) -- Fremont-Mills, Clarinda and Shenandoah are new to the latest Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union Volleyball Rankings. Find the full rankings here and the list of ranked KMAland teams below. CLASS 1A. 1. Ankeny Christian (same) 3. Riverside (down 1) 10. Fremont-Mills (NR) 11. East Mills (down 2)

Iowans will not receive mail, and banks will be closed on October 14, as it is a federal holiday, but Iowa is one of 10 states that recognize it not as Columbus Day, but rather Indigenous Peoples Day. Remember….“Columbus sailed the ocean blue, in fourteen hundred and ninety-two.”

While reading the editorial in last Friday’s paper (September 20) I found myself agreeing with most of the statements about Reynolds, Feenstra and eminent domain. I also wish that we would have gotten the three windmills that had been proposed for the hill north of Webster City and the river bluff south of town, but the wind farm by Blairsburg precluded that becoming a reality.

PRAIRIE CITY, Iowa — Bison dominated the Great Plains and Midwest — including Iowa's tallgrass prairie — for centuries, with numbers in the 10s of millions. But by the mid-1800s, they had been hunted to near extinction. Fast-forward 150 years to 1996, when a small herd was...

High pressure has moved into the Upper Midwest this afternoon, leading to another sun filled day, and warmer temperatures than what were observed Tuesday!. High pressure will continue to lead to quiet weather across the Weather First area, with clear skies this evening and into the overnight hours. Temperatures will fall into the mid to upper 40F’s across northern Iowa, and into the low 50F’s closer to Rochester. Winds will also be light and variable.

A trend that is finding its footing in Iowa is the concept of the four-day school week. The North Iowa Community School District is one of those districts that has implemented the idea, and it appears to be working well according to North Iowa Community Schools Superintendent Joe Erickson. The...

There’s one more weed to put on your radar. So far, Asian copperleaf is only a concern to growers in certain Iowa counties. But it’s so new that how it got there, why it’s appearing now, and exactly how to manage it are all a mystery. Meaghan...

DES MOINES, Iowa — A job can be so much more than a job!. In our latest This is Iowa special, which first ran Sept. 26 2024, on KCCI, we visited Oskaloosa, Blank Children's Hospital, Jefferson and Greenfield to meet Iowans who've found callings that go beyond their job description.

This story was originally published on Investigate Midwest. Sept. 25th CONESVILLE, Iowa — The deductions frustrated him. “You earn money faster” in the U.S. than in Mexico, the man said in Spanish. But the deductions in every paycheck slowed his earnings, and he and his family needed every dollar. A few weeks working in Iowa corn fields, with a temporary labor visa, helped him cover his expenses back home. Still, “they discount us a lot,” he said.

So far during the dry-down and early harvest season, the weather has been cooperative for farmers. That is USDA meteorologist, Brad Rippey. He says that the weather has been mild across large stretches of the country where row crops are grown. Corn and soybeans are continuing to develop at a...