Three fire departments fought a fire this past Thursday night that destroyed an abandoned, century-old farmhouse south of ...

The Iowa Department of Agriculture embarked this month on the reclamation of 162 acres of abandoned mine land the Pella Wildlife Area, the largest of about 120 that have taken place in Iowa since the ...

A program to reclaim and restore land contaminated by abandoned mines in Iowa has halted work due to funding uncertainty from the federal government. The Abandoned Mine Land Reclamation program began ...

Land in the Pella Wildlife Area (pictured) is part of an abandoned coal mine that the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship is reclaiming. (Photo courtesy of Iowa DNR) The Iowa ...

CHARLES CITY, Iowa (KCRG) - It cost the state of Iowa about $2.3 million to maintain and ultimately depopulate more than 1.3 million healthy chickens that were abandoned by a former Minnesota-based ...