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IPR file Children play on some of the downed trees near Redmond Park in Cedar Rapids in the wake of the Aug. 10 derecho. Six months after the derecho carved a path of devastation across Iowa, the city of Cedar Rapids is advancing a plan to regrow its urban forest. It will take years to restore the towering trees that were leveled by the hurricane-force winds; some 70 percent of the public tree canopy has been lost since the storm. The sight of massive, centuries-old trees uprooted entirely were among the most searing images in the aftermath of the Aug. 10 derecho. The breathtakingly intense s...

Tree debris and jagged limbs still line the streets of Linn County communities six months after the derecho's hurricane-force winds destroyed the canopy that had taken generations to grow.

CEDAR RAPIDS - Events of the unprecedented 2020 - the COVID-19 pandemic, civil unrest and the derecho's destructive winds - shape spending priorities outlined in the city's proposed fiscal 2022 budget unveiled Monday.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — Shannon Ramsay recalls Daniels Park in the northeast quadrant...

While winter's landscape appears to lie dormant under the snow, don't let that fool you.