At least 22 states have declared a state of emergency as a significant winter storm hits much of the United States.

Hear from the Ames Tribune's readers in the latest batch of letters to the editor.

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Robbie Orvis, senior director for modeling at the think tank Energy Innovation, said he expects energy affordability to be the major issue of the year. He pointed to the rising wholesale price of ...

History is often taught as if progress moves in a straight line—from ancient Greece to Rome, from medieval Europe to the Renaissance, from industrialization to modernity. Africa, in this telling, ...