WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 -- The U.S. Department of Defense's Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency issued the following news release: The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air Forces Corporal Melvin L. Huff, 19, of Iowa Falls, Iowa, killed during World War II, was accounted for on July 30, 2024. In January 1945, Huff was assigned to 360th Service Group, Combat Replacement Training Center, Far East Air Force, and deployed in present day Papua New Guinea. As part of   more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release: LENEXA, KAN. (OCT. 17, 2024) - Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced selections totaling nearly $125 million under the Diesel Emissions Reduction Act (DERA) National Grants program, including $97,250 to selectees in Iowa. This funding will incentivize and accelerate the upgrade or retirement of older diesel engines to cleaner and zero-emission solutions, leading to significan  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 -- NASA issued the following news release: Students from Iowa will have the opportunity to hear NASA astronaut Nick Hague answer their prerecorded questions while he's serving an expedition aboard the International Space Station on Monday, Oct. 21. Watch the 20-minute space-to-Earth call at 11:40 a.m. EDT on NASA+. Students from Iowa State University in Ames, First Robotics Clubs, World Food Prize Global Youth Institute, and Plant the Moon teams will focus on food productio  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's U.S. Geological Survey issued the following news release: Media Advisory: Members of the news media are invited to attend a media day at the Dubuque Regional Airport to see first-hand the aircraft and equipment that will be used to image geology during a U.S. Geological Survey Earth Mapping Resources Initiative (Earth MRI) low-level airborne survey of the tristate region later this month. View the full advisory here. RESTON, Va. Low  more