The proposed changes include dividing the district into three regions, moving sixth-graders to elementary schools, expanding all-day preschool for 4-year-olds and creating signature schools that ...

Fong's, a Des Moines institution, was limited by its current location. So when Peace Tree space opened up, co-owner says, ...

Senior police officers Neal Shaffer and Titus Deford both fired their handguns at David Leroy Kintz Jr. after the suspect allegedly pulled a weapon last Thursday.

This is my final column for the Des Moines Business Record, which has carried my musings since 2012. Beginning next month, the Elbert Files will have a new home at a sister publication, dsm magazine, ...

Downtown Des Moines, especially west of the river, is still struggling to bounce back from the pandemic. Why it matters: The ...

Reimagining Education aims to reshape the district over the next 10 years and is part of a larger move by officials to ...

Joyce Lillis was inspired to become a nurse after watching the care her mom received after suffering a stroke, and later as a ...

International student visa holders and faculty members studying and working at Iowa colleges and universities who publicly endorse or espouse the actions of foreign terrorist organizations, such as ...

The Des Moines Public Schools is looking to address declining enrollment and increasingly diverse student populations with am ...

Their donation transformed an assortment of dilapidated buildings into the attractive ... Mary Pappajohn Sculpture Park is located in downtown Des Moines. The park is open from sunrise to midnight.

Not only is the building home to the governor's offices, the legislature and the old Supreme Court room ... neighborhood across the Des Moines River from downtown. It is accessible via the ...

The Iowa Attorney General's Office says there will be no charges filed against the Des Moines police officers who killed a man during a shootout in September. The attorney general's office found that ...