INVESTIGATION. GREW UP IN THE COUNTY. THREE ALMONDS, GRAPES AT ONE TIME, ALMONDS ALL AROUND. NOW MARTHA LLORENS LIVES IN THE SHADE OF ALMOND TREES IN THE HOUSE WHERE SHE GREW UP. IT WAS NICE BACK THEN ...

Nitrate levels in the Raccoon River are the highest they have been since 2013, forcing local officials in central Iowa to enact a lawn watering ban for the first time. The stage three water shortage ...

As Central Iowa Water Works imposes a lawn-watering ban to help ensure member utilities have the capacity to treat high levels of nitrates in their source water, some central Iowans are eyeing the ...

While publicly registered drinking water must meet government standards and regulations, people accessing private groundwater ...

The eyes of dead fish and the message “know what you drink” adorn a new billboard near Avoca that urges Iowans to monitor ...

(Reuters) - A massive warehouse explosion in Beirut killed at least 100 people and injured nearly 4,000. Lebanese President Michel Aoun said 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate had been stored for six ...

ANNIVERSARY ARRIVES. GOOD MORNING. IT IS 6 A.M. I’M DEIRDRE FITZPATRICK AND I’M TEO TORRES. SO YOU MAY WANT TO SLOW DOWN ON YOUR DRIVE INTO WORK BECAUSE IT’S FOGGY OUT THERE. IT’S BEEN A WHILE SINCE ...

In a slim margin, Environment Canterbury declared a nitrate emergency on September 17, backing a motion from outgoing ...

‘The Nitrate Emergency: it starts here.’ That’s what a freshly-installed Fonterra farm sign said outside Canterbury’s first ...