A fertilizer spill this month in southwest Iowa killed nearly all the fish in a 60-mile stretch of river with an estimated death toll of more than 750,000, according to Iowa and Missouri conservation ...

Iowa might be famous for its corn and pork, but the state also serves up some seriously delicious fried fish that tastes just like grandma made it. From cozy diners to lakeside shacks, these spots fry ...

Boasting all the colors of the rainbow, the Iowa darter is indisputably a handsome guy. Is the species ready ― and worthy ― to represent the state it's named for? Iowa Rep. John Wills, R-Spirit Lake, ...

The NEW Cooperative in Red Oak spilled about 265,000 gallons of liquid nitrogen fertilizer earlier this month. (Photo courtesy of Iowa Department of Natural Resources) Buy Photo A fertilizer spill ...

Hundreds of thousands of fish were killed earlier this month in a nearly 50-mile stretch of the East Nishnabotna River to the Missouri border due to a fertilizer spill in Iowa, state officials said.

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 ...

A man fishes in the Des Moines River in Des Moines on May 14. (Mónica Cordero/Investigate Midwest, Report for America) Buy Photo Kolan Clark’s lifelong passion for fishing dates back to the age of 5, ...

Samantha Williams, co-president of the Nishnabotna Water Defenders, holds a dissolved oxygen test next to the East Nishnabotna River near Red Oak. The state's fifth largest recorded fish kill occurred ...