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The Science Center of Iowa will host a discussion of avian flu tonight, featuring Jim Roth, Iowa State University professor of veterinary microbiology and preventive medicine. The free public event, “Café Scientifique: Avian Flu & the …

Businesses across Iowa are reporting that criminals claiming to represent their local power company are calling and threatening to shut off their electricity unless they make immediate payment through a prepaid debit card. Iowa Attorney …

West Central Cooperative plans a $27 million expansion that will increase its soybean processing capacity at its Ralston plant by 50 percent. The project also will add grain storage. At full capacity, the expansion would create demand for …

Mid America Recycling has bought the Waste Management recycling plant in Des Moines for an undisclosed sum. Mid America was sold to Greenstar Recycling in 2007, and Waste Management bought the facility in 2013. The …

The Metro Waste Authority is offering bus tours of its landfill in eastern Polk County at 8:30 a.m. June 6 and at 8 a.m. June 26. The landfill on University Avenue/Iowa Highway 163 takes in …

Six nonprofit organizations in Greater Des Moines have been awarded community grants totaling $18,000 from the Alliant Energy Foundation in the first of its two 2015 giving cycles. The Science Center of Iowa will receive …

The embattled Environmental Protection Agency on Friday released proposed rules for the volume of biofuels to be blended into the nation’s fuels through 2016, and brought immediate complaints, the Washington Post reported. Some farm interests said the …

Des Moines Water Works on Thursday said the 111 days it has run its $7,000-a-day nitrate-removal plant this year broke the previous single-year record of 106, set in 1999. Current nitrate levels are 15.31 milligrams …