However, many Oaknoll residents also wanted to take part in composting. This was accomplished with help from the City of Iowa City which provided fifty apartment-size composting buckets.

The presidency of the Council rotates among the EU member states every six months. During this six-month period, the presidency chairs meetings at every level in the Council, helping to ensure the ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. IOWA CITY — It appears a primary election will be necessary after three candidates filed for the ...

The Florida Composting Council is hosting a Composting Workshop on Jan. 14 at two organics composting locations in South Florida: Fertile Earth Worms in Homestead, Florida, and Lion Farms in Miami.

Statewide, Iowa – Composting can be an environmentally friendly way to take care of holiday waste. Jennifer Trent with the Iowa Waste Reduction Center says there are some things that will draw ...

Statewide, Iowa – If you made a New Year’s resolution, you may need to genuinely focus on making the change in order to keep the pledge. Alison Phillips, a psychology professor at Iowa State ...

No. 3 Iowa State opened the new year with a 74-55 win over No. 25 Baylor for its 26th consecutive home win inside Hilton Coliseum. The Cyclones led by as many as 25 points and recorded a wire-to ...

Worm composting, or vermicomposting, is a good way to accomplish both. In addition to producing compost, it’s also a great way to put those kitchen scraps to use.

Denmark, Greece, Pakistan, Panama and Somalia began to assume responsibilities as non-permanent members of the United Nations Security Council. Their two-year term officially started on January 1.

A bill signed into New York State law in December will expand the number of restaurants, grocery stores, colleges and sports venues that will have to donate surplus food or truck it to a ...

A Border Patrol agent processes asylum seekers at an improvised camp in California near the U.S.-Mexico border. Guillermo Arias/AFP/Getty Images The U.S. immigration system is complex, consisting ...

The council reminds residents that all decorations must be removed from trees and that any tree over five feet tall must be cut in half. The trees will be taken to a site in Ardley, where they’ll be ...