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Volga, Iowa, residents were evacuated from their homes Saturday morning, and the Volga River hit a crest of about 14 feet by early Saturday afternoon.
HARPERS FERRY, Iowa (KWWL) -- The Iowa DNR says they have reassigned a full-time park ranger from Yellow River State Forest to the Volga River State Recreation Area to address staffing needs. The ...
FAYETTE - The river runs through it, and an enterprising Upper Iowa University student wants to map it. The Volga River snakes and bends its way through a 5,500-acre state recreation area that ...
Repeated deluges have led to covered highways and swamped basements, especially in northwest Iowa, where many locations received more than 5 inches of rain Wednesday. Multiple parks were closed to ...
Astrakhan, on the Volga River, once was known as Russia's caviar capital — but no more. As the fish neared extinction, Russia banned all commercial sturgeon fishing in the area and the export of ...
VOLGA, Iowa (AP) -- An 8-year-old girl swimming with friends in the Volga River drowned when she was pulled under the water by the strong current, officials said.
Nowhere is the Volga River more hallowed than in the city named after it: Volgograd, better known as Stalingrad, site of one of World War II's most important, and bloodiest, battles. Today ...