DES MOINES — Legislation authorizing the state Natural Resources Commission to establish an open season for hunting mourning doves in Iowa took wing in the Iowa Senate Tuesday. Senators voted 30-18 to ...

Mark Conway, Mike Conway, Greg Preston and Rod Moore each bagged their limit of mourning doves at the St. Mary’s Island Wildlife Management Area during the opening day of Iowa’s dove hunting season.

DES MOINES — Even biblical references were not enough to spare mourning doves from the possibility of becoming game birds in Iowa. A day after the Iowa Senate approved Senate File 464 authorizing the ...

The Labor Day weekend usually marks the unofficial end of most summer activities. While summer doesn’t officially end for another three weeks, you would only have to look around the sports section ...