DES MOINES, Iowa, Aug. 26 -- The Iowa Department of Natural Resources issued the following news release: * * * Federally endangered pallid sturgeon discovered in Iowa's Des Moines River * The Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) announced the first-ever collection of the federally endangered pallid sturgeon from the lower Des Moines River. The discovery of two pallid sturgeon this spring came a week a part during the Iowa DNR's annual spring sturgeon sampling effort. This sampling ha  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 -- The Internal Revenue Service issued the following revenue ruling (No. 2025-16) on Aug. 25, 2025, entitled "Section 2032A.--Valuation of Certain Farm, Etc., Real Property". * * * This revenue ruling contains a list of the average annual effective interest rates on new loans under the Farm Credit System. This revenue ruling also contains a list of the states within each Farm Credit System Bank Territory. Under Sec. 2032A(e)(7)(A)(ii) of the Internal Revenue Code, rates on  more

DALLAS, Texas, Aug. 26 -- The Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas, a district bank in the Federal Home Loan Bank System, issued the following news release: * * * Mississippi Homeowner Receives Grant for Storm-Resistant Roof from FHLB Dallas and RiverHills Bank * A Vicksburg, Mississippi, couple has a new storm-resistant roof that was provided with a $15,000 FHLB Dallas FORTIFIED Fund grant through RiverHills Bank. VICKSBURG, MISSISSIPPI, August 26, 2025--Ethel Franklin, a resident of a 106-year  more

DES MOINES, Iowa, Aug. 26 -- The Iowa Department of Natural Resources issued the following news release: * * * Natural backwater wetland, Klum Lake should be on birders, duck hunters radar this fall * Ringed by trees and away from the busy roads in eastern Louisa County, Klum Lake has undergone a significant makeover over the past decade or so. The 250-acre natural floodplain lake - historically connected to the Mississippi River by Muscatine Slough - had been filled with eight-foot-tall cat  more