Community & Volunteering

Residential areas marked red — starting in the 1930s — were deemed places of high-risk investment. The impacts of this practice, called redlining, persist today and even extend to the tree canopy.

Saturday is the second anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Since then, nearly 500,000 Ukrainian refugees have come to the U.S., and one woman has helped bring dozens of them to a northwest Iowa county.

For some towns in rural Iowa, it's possible to shrink and yet still thrive.

Mental health representatives from the City of West Des Moines and NAMI Iowa join the show to discuss mental health efforts in the state.

There are many reasons to do good things for others, but one is the personal benefits to health, happiness, and self-esteem that result.

Several winners talked to IPR News Western Iowa Reporter Sheila Brummer after the votes were counted.

This upcoming Election Day could find the Sioux City Community School Board with a majority of new members. One incumbent tells IPR why her name won’t be on the ballot.

University of Iowa senior and wrestler Nanea Estrella was getting ready to leave her home in Maui before the start of the 2023-2024 school year when fires began to overtake the western coastal town of Lahaina.

The new mural downtown features 63 butterflies in all, representing the nationalities of people now living in Storm Lake.

Ninety-year-old identical twins Bonnie Smola and Donna Story spent their first 20 years together, and the next 20 years apart, before coming back together for the next half-century.