RIGHT NOW. NEW AT NOON. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS JUST CONFIRMED A TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN JUST EAST OF THE TOWN OF MENDON. NOW, IT WAS JUST TEN DAYS AGO. A TORNADO LEVELED MUCH OF THE TOWN.

IPR's Talk of Iowa host Charity Nebbe speaks with Jim Pease, Pauline Drobney and Pete Eyheralde at the Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge on Earth Day in front of an audience. Land that was once ...

Lee Tesdell stands in a prairie strip on his farm near Slater, Iowa. He grows alfalfa and Kernza, a perennial grain, raises sheep and cash rents to a neighbor who grows corn and soybeans. Over the ...

For more than a decade, Iowans have gathered at the Kellerton Grasslands Bird Conservation Area at sunrise to watch the unique courtship dance of the prairie chicken, whose population in Iowa has been ...

A greater prairie chicken during its courtship at the Kellerton lek. (Photo by Lowell Washburn/DNR) For more than a decade, Iowans have gathered at the Kellerton Grasslands Bird Conservation Area at ...

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is seeking the public's assistance in locating prairie chickens this spring.