Iowa’s trumpeter swan population had nearly 160 nests in 2025, a modern-day record the Iowa Department of Natural Resources ...

The temporary injunction allows Achieva Enterprises to reopen the resort in southern Iowa while a lawsuit continues over who ...

The Iowa DNR recently released a series of informational updates on chronic-wasting disease that’s found in deer. State deer biologist Jace Elliott says they want to get information out to update ...

This story is a collaboration between Inside Climate News and Sentient Media. More than a thousand hogs grow fat in the enclosed shed-like structures on Gene Tinker’s farm in northeast Iowa, while a ...

DAVENPORT, Iowa (KWQC) - Hunters are enjoying the great outdoors in both Iowa and Illinois this year, but DNR officials want hunters to be aware of the safety and responsibility that comes along with ...

DAVENPORT, Iowa (KWQC) - Deer breeding season is underway across Iowa and Illinois, creating increased crash risks for drivers. November marks the peak of breeding season, known as “the rut,” when ...

Jason Palmer, a natural resource biologist with the Iowa DNR, kneels next to a water pump at Big Creek beach in central Iowa. The pump siphons water from the knee-deep zone of the swimming area ...

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is investigating the spill of manure into a tributary in Carroll County. DNR says the spill happened Monday night while B&B Custom Pumping was applying manure ...

BRIGHTON, Iowa — A 17-year-old has died after a hunting accident in southeastern Iowa. On Saturday, Sept. 27, around 3 p.m., a group of squirrel hunters was out in rural Brighton when a member of the ...

IOWA, USA — The Iowa Department of Natural Resources, which is celebrating 100 years of pheasant hunting this year, is forecasting a "banner year" for Iowa hunters. “The mild winter really put us over ...

The bottom fish is the federally endangered pallid sturgeon; the top is the more common shovelnose sturgeon. The color of the pallid is a whitish gray, and the "nose" is more elongated. The Iowa ...