The Great Outdoors Foundation and ICON Water Trails have opened nominations for the annual Wild Prairie Showdown awards. The awards celebrate contributions to conservation and recreation from ...

The Iowa Rural Development Council has launched a new program to provide funds for local organizations looking to develop ...

The Harkin Institute and Polk County have announced the first official presentation of findings from the Central Iowa Source ...

Drake University has announced Kelly Bruhn, professor of public relations and associate dean of Drake’s School of Journalism ...

Peoples Co., an agricultural land services firm based in Clive, has announced a national awareness campaign to address the ...

Interest rates, higher input costs and volatility from tariffs are putting downward pressure on farmland prices and rural ...

Gov. Kim Reynolds’ Healthy Kids Iowa program funds summer meals for kids, but does not go as far as Summer EBT, a federal program, food security advocates said. “Summer EBT would have assisted 245,000 ...

Central Iowa Water Works’ technical committee has voted to lift the ban for residential lawn watering, starting July 22. To manage demand, lawn watering must be conducted on an even/odd lawn watering ...

An Associated Builders and Contractors analysis of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Producer Price Index data shows that construction input prices increased 0.2% in June compared to the previous month ...

The Des Moines school district will host a job fair from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. July 30 at East High School, 815 E. 13th St. The district has numerous full- and part-time positions to fill including ...

Iowa Orthopedics plans to open a new medical facility in Kettlestone Central, a new mixed-use development in Waukee. The new facility, which will include orthopedic and urgent injury clinics, physical ...

“We hope to know any day now who the new owner of Valley West Mall is going to be, and we look forward to taking that site and the area around it back to absolute greatness,” Trimble said. Valley West ...