Surveys at sites in Mexico where monarch butterflies spend the winter have some encouraging news about their numbers. Mykayla Hagaman keeps an eye on those numbers at Iowa Monarch Conservation Consortium at Iowa State University. “Monarchs have occupied 7.24 acres at their overwintering sites in Mexico, which is the second year we’ve seen an increase […]

Bill makes smuggling undocumented immigrants a crime in Iowa
Human smuggling of undocumented immigrants — to conceal them from law enforcement — would become a crime in Iowa if a






