Erik Weida News Today

EYOTA, Minn.- Kids and their families took to the ice this morning in Eyota for the 10th annual Youth Ice Expo at Chester Woods Park.

Des Moines Register Dave Johnson sees solar power under development in northern Iowa bringing some desperately needed jobs to the rural area — and stable revenue to farmers battered in recent years by trade wars, oversupply and low prices. "Things are just deteriorating out here in rural America," said Johnson, who farms with two sons near Riceville, not far from the Minnesota border. "Its just empty." Already a national leader in wind energy, the state could see an explosion of solar dev...