AREA WEATHER FORECAST Saturday Mostly sunny, with a high near 89. South southwest wind 6 to 8 mph. Saturday Night Partly cloudy, with a low around 66. South wind 3 to 5 mph. Sunday Mostly sunny, with a high near 88. Light south wind increasing to 5 to 9 mph in the morning. Sunday Night A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 65. Monday Mostly sunny, with a high near 86.

Iowa 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 has been conducted since 2014, but until this year, only shovelnose sturgeon, and an occasional l

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