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, ...

Sam Summers is ready to reveal his latest venture, Tom Archer's Poor Man's Country Club, under the Val Air Ballroom.

The pause affects billions of dollars and is delaying home repairs, factory construction and other projects, many in states ...

A new Stephen King flick? Yep. Double the Frankenstein? You know it. Another "M3GAN"? Naturally. Here are 25 horror movies to ...

Nestled in the southwest corner of the Iowa’s portion of the unglaciated Driftless Area, the countryside around Oelwein is ...

Earlier this month, the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy provided the Alpena Municipal Council an update on contamination at the old plant. The state reported that six ...

A Des Moines man was found guilty of first-degree murder for shooting a 22-year-old during what prosecutors believe was a botched robbery attempt. Cedrick Charles Thomas Jr., 28, was found guilty ...

Bridgestone is planning to close its LaVergne, Tenn., truck/bus tire plant and undertake additional workforce reductions in ...

A Des Moines man was sentenced to 17 years in federal prison on Friday for distributing fentanyl that led to the death of a 1-year-old child. Kenneth Leroy Quinn, 23, sold pills containing fentanyl in ...

THE CITY OF DES MOINES WANTS TO BUILD A PALLET VILLAGE ON THE EAST SIDE. TO OFFER SHELTER TO THOSE WHO NEED IT. THEY WANT TO PUT IT RIGHT THERE ON THE SITE OF AN OLD SCHOOL PROPERTY. NOT EVERYBODY ...

Applicants Allan Joyce Architects and Philip Collins want to build a block of 20 supported-living homes in place of the former factory in Alpine Street, Old Basford. The four-storey building would ...