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 ...

Sunday marks five years since the August 2020 derecho in Cedar Rapids. Even with every natural disaster experience eastern Iowa has been through, none required the all-hands on deck response quite ...

Cedar Rapids marked the five-year anniversary today of the derecho that did tremendous damage — including ripping away some two-thirds of its tree canopy. City officials planted a Bur Oak tree in ...

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, ...

In August 2020, Cedar Rapids was hit by a Derecho with winds reaching 140 mph, resulting in the destruction of approximately 70% of the city's tree cover, including a significant cherry tree (prunus ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — When President Donald Trump visits Cedar Rapids on Tuesday. Gov. Kim Reynolds wants to impress on him the “extensiveness” of the impact of last week’s hurricane-force storm that ...

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 ...

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 ...

As families along the Gulf Coast deal with the aftermath of Hurricane Laura, people in Iowa are still without power after a derecho with winds of up to 140 miles per hour hit parts of the state on ...

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 ...