The acronym A.W.A.R.E. stands for “A Watershed Awareness River Expedition” and is the largest river cleanup for the state of Iowa. On Tuesday crews paddled for 12 miles along the Cedar River.

More than 20 nature lovers made a splash Saturday by helping clean up the environment. Participants floated down the Winnebago River to enjoy the outdoors and pick up trash. The group gathered a ...

More than two decades after it was started, the river cleanup effort Iowa Project AWARE, is about to hit a major milestone: 1 ...

That’s what a man in Charles City, Iowa yelled after his car plunged into an icy river while on his way to class. “Siri, call 911.” ... His car, though, plummeted into the Winnebago River.

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is seeking public comment on the newly released draft 2020 impaired waters list through Dec. 30.

The Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska has a reservation in Dakota County, Nebraska, and Iowa's Woodbury County, straddling the Missouri River. It requested in June that the Iowa Utilities Board, the U.S ...

Authorities in north-central Iowa continued to search Saturday for a man who fell out of a fishing boat on the Winnebago River near Hanlontown.Emergency responders were called around 1:20 p.m ...

In 1970, the U.S. government took 1,600 acres away from the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska through eminent domain. The plan was to use the ground along the Missouri River in Woodbury and Monona ...

The Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska will soon get back about 1,600 acres of land on the Iowa side of the Missouri River that the federal government took more than 50 years ago and never developed.

Kayla Lyon, director of the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, said DNR officers have been responsible for many rescues. “We had two officers that were dispatched to a medical call,” she said.

SLOAN, Iowa | Stands of trees and marshy grass cover sandy dunes along government-owned land adjacent to sections of the Missouri River known as Winnebago Bend and Snyder Bend.

SLOAN, Iowa (AP) — The Winnebago Tribe is hoping to reclaim land in Iowa that was once part of its reservation in northeast Nebraska, but local hunters are concerned they might lose access.