CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - Sunday marks the five year anniversary of the 2020 Derecho that hit eastern Iowa. On Friday, Cedar Rapids commemorated how far the city has come in building back with a ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. CEDAR RAPIDS — On Aug. 10, 2020, after the most destructive storm most Iowa residents have ever seen, ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (IOWA CAPITAL DISPATCH) - An estimated 2.67 million trees in Iowa forests and another 4.4 million trees in urban canopies were killed or damaged by the 2020 Midwest derecho that swept ...

The August 10, 2020 derecho was a storm that no one had time to prepare for. Trees that took generations to grow — were brought down in minutes. We lost an estimated 70% of our tree canopy in 45 ...

On Thursday Cedar Rapids Mayor Tiffany O'Donnell joined Iowa's News Now this morning to talk about several key issues facing the city. She says the city is making major progress on several fronts from ...

DAVENPORT, Iowa — Sunday, Aug. 10, marks five years since the 2020 Midwest Derecho tore across Iowa, leaving a path of destruction that remains visible in many communities. The line of storms ...

Cedar Rapids marked the five-year anniversary today of the derecho that did tremendous damage — including ripping away some two-thirds of its tree canopy. City officials planted a Bur Oak tree in ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — When President Donald Trump visits Cedar Rapids on Tuesday. Gov. Kim Reynolds wants to impress on him the “extensiveness” of the impact of last week’s hurricane-force storm that ...

Omar Zepeda walks along scaffolding while checking his work on the siding for houses in the Dows Farm Agri-community development in Linn County on July 31. The six-home development was awarded $1 ...

The forecast is worrisome: The National Weather Service predicted late-afternoon thunderstorms would congeal into a derecho over eastern South Dakota by the evening of July 28. Then, the storm and ...

Northwestern Iowa was hit by damaging winds ranging from 80 to 100 mph as a powerful storm meteorologists warned had the potential to develop into a derecho moved across the Plains. The high winds ...