Des Moines Area Community College has named Liang Chee Wee interim president starting in 2026, the college announced Friday, Oct. 31.

A Des Moines mother is pleading for justice after her fiancé allegedly shot her 16-year-old daughter in the face. Police are ...

The littlest patients at MercyOne’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit are celebrating their first Halloween. Staff are making it ...

Des Moines leaders often say many of Central Iowa’s successes as a region, from the Global Insurance Accelerator to ICON Water Trails, are the result of close collaboration across organizations and ...

WalletHub ranked more than 400 U.S. cities to find the best college towns in America. See how it rated Iowa's biggest college ...

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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The former superintendent of Iowa’s largest school district falsely claimed to be a U.S. citizen on a federal form and knowingly possessed several firearms illegally, according ...

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Democrat Jackie Norris ended her campaign for Iowa’s open U.S. Senate seat Thursday, saying she would focus on her job leading the Des Moines public school board following the ...

Iowa State football has reached the second of three bye weeks in the team's 2025 regular season. The Cyclones are getting a much-needed break. Since their previous bye week, they earned a dominant win ...

Several teams, including Indiana and Virginia, have exceeded early-season expectations. A number of first-year coaches, such as UNLV's Dan Mullen, are finding immediate success. Alabama has recovered ...

A group representing Iowa anesthesiologists has retracted its public letter raising concerns over MercyOne's decision to part with its former long-time partner for anesthesia care. MercyOne on May 31 ...