The USS Cairo, a Civil War-era “ironclad” gunboat, was raised from the Mississippi River in 1964—but if its wood decay ...

The USS New Jersey, an Iowa-class battleship, served in World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Lebanon, and the Persian Gulf. It's now a floating museum.

President Donald Trump’s deployment of the nation’s most advanced aircraft carrier to South America is pulling the ship out ...

A U.S. Navy helicopter and fighter jet crashed within 30 minutes over the South China Sea during routine operations ...

World Food Prize Foundation CEO Tom Vilsack in the "Hall of Laureates" in Des Moines. (WFP photo) World Food Prize events are underway in Des Moines as several thousand government officials, ...

The USS Illinois was supposed to be the fifth of the U.S. Navy's WWII-era Iowa-class battleships, but it never joined its siblings at sea. Here's why.

If you've ever driven through Iowa and wondered what there is to see beyond the 15 million acres of row corn, you might consider looking below the surface. Incredibly, the so-called Tall Corn State is ...

Many of the over 17,000 beef cattle operations scattered across Iowa share similarities in appearance and production, according to the 2022 USDA Census of Agriculture. However, indistinguishable from ...

UNI’s Wyatt Voelker wrestles Iowa State’s Evan Bockman in a 197 pound match during a wrestling meet at McLeod Center in Cedar Falls, Iowa on Sunday, Feb. 16, 2025. (Savannah Blake/The Gazette) Buy ...

Forty years after the Iowa Lottery first kicked off ticket sales at the Iowa State Fair, it's back and better than ever. The Iowa Lottery celebrated the milestone by breaking a Guinness World Record: ...

The Global Sumud Flotilla, a convoy of over 50 civilian boats carrying more than 500 activists, aid workers, and lawmakers from around 45 countries, is sailing through the eastern Mediterranean ...

Sept. 30 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1630, John Billington, one of the first pilgrims to land in America, was hanged for murder -- the first European criminal executed in the American colonies ...