DES MOINES (AP) — Construction of Iowa's first resort park is set to begin next spring with the help of $28 million in state financing to be approved by Gov. Tom Vilsack on Wednesday. The Honey Creek ...

Veterans from Iowa and around the Midwest who suffer from major traumatic injuries after combat are spending this week at the Honey Creek Resort at Lake Rathbun in southern Iowa. Iowa Department of ...

DES MOINES, Iowa—A Minnesota company has been chosen to run Iowa’s first state park resort. Central Group Cos., based in St. Cloud, Minn., will head the Honey Creek Resort State Park at Rathbun Lake.

Iowa's only state-owned resort has added an aquapark, with 16 floating structures for bouncing, climbing and sliding into Lake Rathbun in southeastern Iowa. Delaware North Companies Parks & Resorts, ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Plans for a lodge at Iowa's first state park resort will be scaled back to save money, officials with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources said. The $48 million Honey ...

When the first settlers arrived in Iowa in the 1830s, they found a fertile, tall-grass prairie that towered over their wagons in many places. It covered more than 85% of the state and early records ...

The resort’s golf course, The Preserve on Rathbun Lake, was listed No. 10 on Golf Digest’s best new public courses list for 2009, among other accolades. A full-time naturalist at the resort hosts ...

Repeated heavy rains in and around Lake Rathbun have doubled the size of the lake to 22,000 acres and are threatening to flood many of the natural resource facilities that draw an estimated 800,000 ...

The state of Iowa is taking steps to sell Honey Creek Resort on Lake Rathbun in Moravia, a one-time pet project of the Iowa Department of Natural Resources that became a worsening financial liability ...