For the first time in 35 years, the U.S. Academic Decathlon National Finals will be in Des Moines. The competition will run ...

Bankers Trust has hired Brett Hartema as its next chief financial officer, succeeding Kip Albertson, who is retiring from the ...

Alex Coggeshell has been hired as library director by the city of Pleasant Hill. Coggeshell replaces John Lerdal, who retired ...

YWRC and Iowa’s Biggest Book Sale announced a new partnership to revive a 60-year community book sale fundraiser. Planned ...

The Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research and Genvax Technologies, an animal vaccine startup located in Ames, are ...

Drake University has opened its new Johansen Student Center, the former Morehouse residence hall, that will be a gathering ...

Jeff Pomeranz was city manager in West Des Moines when the community was approached around 2008 by a consultant looking for ...

Amy Landrigan gets a bit choked up when speaking about her work as executive director at the Beacon. Serving women and ...

Every month or so, when Gina Robinson was an administrator for the Winterset school district, she would set a marble on the ...

As the District at Prairie Trail in Ankeny approaches its 20th anniversary, other Central Iowa communities are developing ...

A 50-plus-year-old building in Des Moines now has more youth to it. Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Iowa opened its new ...

As time has passed since the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, many major Des Moines employers including Principal, Wellmark and ...