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The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Unseasonably warm temperatures in the past few weeks have worsened ice quality in much of the state, the ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — Unseasonably warm temperatures have compromised ice quality south of Iowa Highway 3, making ice fishing unsafe in the area. “Ice fishing in central and southern Iowa, is not advised ...