The city of Clear Lake is among the Iowa communities that previously banned consumer fireworks altogether but can no longer ...

Area state lakes that are not recommended for swimming are Blue Lake Beach near Onawa, Black Hawk Beach near Lake View and ...

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources says ten state beaches have elevated e-coli levels.As a result, the DNR says swimming is not recommended at the followi ...

In preparation for summer’s arrival, the north basin has gone through two applications of chemicals in May and June.

Authorities spent several hours on Thursday searching the lake after the man's unoccupied fishing boat was found circling on the water.

Animal rescuers were called to a Buffalo Wild Wings eatery in Iowa to wrangle an unusual visitor: a live chicken.

A search and rescue team in Michigan was dispatched to a marshy area of a lake to free a great blue heron entangled in ...

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources confirms that a dive team recovered the body of an adult man from a Union County ...

Iowa State freshman Joash Ruto leads for much of the race and finishes 4th! Ruto breaks his own school record, 8 minutes and 20 seconds, and that time ranks 17th in NCAA history. The body of a swimmer ...

The body of a swimmer who went under the water at Raccoon River Park’s Blue Heron Lake Sunday and didn’t surface has been located. Sgt. Dan Wade of the West Des Moines Police Department said the body ...

A witness told police an 18-year-old went under and did not resurface. Divers were in the second day searching for the swimmer at Raccoon River Park.