Severe Weather

It’s been an active season for tornadoes and flooding in the Midwest due to various factors like hot and cold jet streams and climate change. This could create lasting public health challenges.

If the founding fathers were here today, they would see a very different political landscape than they might have anticipated.

Tourism officials and businesses in the Iowa Great Lakes region are seeing lower crowds and revenues this season due to flooding that hit the area at end of June and into early July.

President Joe Biden approved a presidential disaster declaration for parts of northwest Iowa after catastrophic flooding. As the major flood threat moved downstream, one of the hardest hit communities focused on clean-up and finding what could be salvaged.

Republican and Democratic officials react to the Manhattan jury's unanimous decision to convict former President Donald Trump of all 34 counts related to falsifying business records.

A swarm of violent storms hit Iowa Tuesday, including multiple tornadoes.

Officials now say four people were killed and at least 35 were injured in the storm that destroyed dozens of homes in the southwest Iowa community.

One resident was fatally injured and more than 40 homes were destroyed following an EF3-rated tornado that hit the southwest Iowa town of Minden late last week.

The National Weather Services issued dozens of tornado warnings on Friday night, with several twisters touching the ground from outside Lincoln, Nebraska through Iowa. One community hardest hit by the storm experienced an outpouring of support.

Storms tore through parts of the Midwest this week, resulting in tornadoes in multiple states, including Iowa.