personal safety

The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics participated in a national study, which found nearly half of Iowa drivers involved in a serious crash had at least one drug in their system.

When should you start talking to kids about sexuality, consent, and safe relationships? “Birth,” says professor Alison Oliver, who teaches courses on…

The first injuries and house fires caused by fireworks, recently made legal in Iowa, are on the books.On this edition of River to River, Ben Kieffer talks…

Hundreds of thousands of people go to work each day preparing the beef, pork and poultry that ends up on our dinner tables. Their workplace is among the…

The meatpacking plants that enable American consumers to find cheap hamburger and chicken wings in the grocery store are among the most dangerous places…

Meatpacking workers call it "the chain." Sometimes "the line," or "la linea." It sets the pace for all work done at meat processing plants, production…

The nights were often worse for Gabriel, even after long days working on the production line at a pork slaughterhouse in Nebraska.He had nightmares that…

On the worst day of Greta Horner's life, she was dressed in a burlap robe, waiting by the window for her husband to come home from work.The couple was…

In this News Buzz program, hear six short interviews about: the Iowa Juvenile Home, the Olympics in Russia, an embarrassing phone conversation involving…

It’s football season and as Iowans stream into bleachers to cheer on high school football teams concerns about head trauma at the highest level of the…