This is the first in a two-part series about famous Iowans. Read part two in the Jan. 24 edition of the of the Business ...

Local officials are responding after an Iowa senator said he plans to propose a bill in the Iowa Legislature for the state to purchase the nine counties along the southernmost part of Minnesota.

Don't let the frigid weather scare you away; as it turns out, Iowa's countryside becomes especially whimsical in the winter.