Newton City Council has followed in the footsteps of the Jasper County Board of Supervisors and has decided to support the Grow Solar Program in order to raise awareness among municipalities and ...

Polk County is continuing to accept proposals for its parking lot at Fifth Avenue and Cherry Street with a March 31 deadline ...

DES MOINES, Iowa – A leader at Sukup Manufacturing Co. has been selected to oversee Iowa’s new Department of Government ...

The Johnson County Historic Poor Farm has been designated a heritage area by Silos & Smokestacks National Heritage Area, ...

Newton News and the PCM Explorer took home four first-place plaques last week at the Iowa Newspaper Association Convention and Awards Ceremony in downtown Des Moines. Both newspapers, along with the ...

With nearly 500 refugees needing assistance, Polk County will provide aid to plug the gap created by Trump's order canceling ...

Des Moines is now enforcing its public sleeping and camping bans after a series of City Council initiatives were met, the ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — Whether you're celebrating the Lunar New Year ... Free to attend Forget Punxsutawney Phil and check out this annual Polk County tradition. The High Life Lounge will celebrate its ...

Several Iowans have been fired recently for alleged workplace misconduct tied to falsified test data, workplace fights and sexual harassment.

Iowa head coach Jan Jensen said Stuelke's concussion was "a pretty bad one," in a postgame interview with the Des Moines Register on Sunday after a 50-49 loss at Oregon. LIVE GAME UPDATES:Iowa women's ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (KCRG) - Rock band Shinedown is coming to the Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines this spring. The band, which has two new singles coming out on Friday (“Three Six Five, and ...

What refugee groups have arrived in Polk County ... Committee's Des Moines office, for example, has welcomed more than 800 refugees to the area since opening in June 2022. Anecdotally, Iowa ...