Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lifejackets on a sign at Gray's Lake on May 23, 2025. (Photo by Cami Koons/Iowa Capital Dispatch) Labor Day weekend marks the ...

More beaches have been added to the not recommended for swimming list, according to the latest Iowa Department of Natural Resources beach monitoring report released Aug. 1. Fifteen beaches monitored ...

The Iowa DNR suggests avoiding 10 beaches this weekend where E. coli levels are too high. All 10 beaches exceeded the standard for E. coli levels in recent testing. This can indicate higher levels of ...

Two-thirds of Iowa’s state park beaches faced “swimming not recommended” advisories at least once this summer, with heavy rains fueling higher bacteria levels that pushed advisories to their highest ...

A lake in southwest Iowa has been closed after a Missouri resident who recently swam there was infected with a brain-eating amoeba. The Iowa Department of Public Health shut down the beach at Lake of ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (IOWA CAPITAL DISPATCH) - Labor Day weekend marks the unofficial close of lake-recreation season, and the official end of the Iowa Department of Natural Resources’ weekly beach ...