The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. CEDAR RAPIDS — On Aug. 10, 2020, after the most destructive storm most Iowa residents have ever seen, ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - Sunday marks the five year anniversary of the 2020 Derecho that hit eastern Iowa. On Friday, Cedar Rapids commemorated how far the city has come in building back with a ...

From the outside, much of Cedar Rapids looks recovered from the derecho that hit five years ago. What you can’t see is the anxiety, the nightmares, the triggers that still live on in many. For Barb ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (Iowa Capital Dispatch) - An estimated 2.67 million trees in Iowa forests and another 4.4 million trees in urban canopies were killed or damaged by the 2020 Midwest derecho that swept ...

The August 10, 2020 derecho was a storm that no one had time to prepare for. Trees that took generations to grow — were brought down in minutes. We lost an estimated 70% of our tree canopy in 45 ...

DAVENPORT, Iowa — Sunday, Aug. 10, marks five years since the 2020 Midwest Derecho tore across Iowa, leaving a path of destruction that remains visible in many communities. The line of storms ...

Omar Zepeda walks along scaffolding while checking his work on the siding for houses in the Dows Farm Agri-community development in Linn County on July 31. The six-home development was awarded $1 ...

Strong storms that brought hurricane-force winds to an area stretching from the Upper Plains to the Midwest have been preliminarily classified by the National Weather Service as a derecho, defined as ...

A destructive storm in 2020 prematurely shut down Iowa’s only nuclear plant. With Google’s plans to reopen it to power nearby ...