A fire at an Osceola bowling alley left a high school bowling team feeling hopeless, but now they’re overcoming those difficulties and competing at state ...

Clarinda was among the schools traveling to Valley High School in West Des Moines for the State Large Group Speech Contest ...

Iowa fishermen frequently travel across state lines to fish different water, me included. We head north for walleyes, smallmouth bass and muskies. We head south for largemouth bass, crappies or ...

Kansas Swim and Dive wrapped up its final regular season meet in Ames, Iowa, at the Beyer Pool on Friday afternoon. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In early 1945, as World War II ground toward its final months, residents of southwest Iowa learned that a new group of prisoners ...

Japanese prisoners of war arrived at Camp Clarinda in Iowa in early 1945, meeting a tense and hostile reception. Unlike German POWs who were integrated into some communities, Japanese prisoners faced ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (KCRG) - Former Des Moines Schools Superintendent Ian Roberts is taking a plea deal in his federal criminal case, according to new court filings. Roberts, originally from Guyana, was ...

WEST DES MOINES, Iowa (Iowa Capital Dispatch) - Renee Hardman, a West Des Moines council member and president and CEO of Lutheran Services in Iowa, won a special election Tuesday for Iowa Senate ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Iowans voted in a special election Dec. 30 for Iowa Senate District 16. (Photo by Cami Koons/Iowa Capital Dispatch) Renee Hardman, ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — Democrat Renee Hardman was elected to the Iowa state Senate on Tuesday in a holiday-week special election, denying Republicans’ bid to reclaim two-thirds control of the chamber.

Chris Jones grew up in Ankeny, Iowa — back when it was a quiet town of no more than 6,000 people and before it became the largest suburb in the Des Moines metro. For Jones, that meant time spent ...

Des Moines University is gearing up to offer residency programming in partnership with area hospitals and clinics. The osteopathic medical school lacks its own hospital, and wants that option for its ...