Des Moines IA

Bondurant will enforce its Snow Ordinance starting at 6:00 AM CST on Saturday, November 29, 2025, due to a forecasted winter storm. Residents should remove vehicles from streets and prepare for possible travel disruptions.

DES MOINES, Iowa — The Des Moines Police Department announced Friday a member of its team, Julie Ostrander, died on Monday. In a release, Sgt. Chip Beardsley shared a tribute, saying in part he did not "recall a single complaint about her conduct or her enforcement decisions -- and that's in a job the public rarely...

Iowans are being reminded by the State Treasurer to check the Great Iowa Treasure Hunt for unclaimed items. More than $71-million has been added in the most recent reporting cycle with nearly 550,000 properties. According to the Treasurer’s Office, that is more than 10-times the previous record set in 2024 with more...

Many Iowans are spending more time on ladders lately, cleaning leaves out their gutters and hanging holiday lights, so a health care professional is offering some safety tips so they don’t fall off those ladders. Registered nurse Kelly Hilsabeck, the trauma injury prevention coordinator at Emplify Health by...

KWQC - 11/23/2025 12:23:00 AM. The recent news of China making its largest purchase of US soybeans since January, buying nearly 1 million tons, has sparked a lively discussion among readers. Despite this large purchase, soybean prices remain unprofitable for most growers, according to an economics professor at Iowa...

Statewide Iowa – While today’s Black Friday sales draw droves of shoppers, Iowa’s small business owners are rallying customers to support them, too, especially this weekend on Small Business Saturday. Brad Zaun, the regional administrator for the US Small Business Administration, says many merchants are facing a...

Chuck Isenhart is an investigative reporter, photographer, and recovering Iowa state legislator offering research, analysis, education, and public affairs advocacy at his Substack newsletter Iowa Public Policy Dude, where this essay first appeared. Thanksgiving is one day in the year that no one in the United States...

(Radio Iowa) – The forecast is calling for a big winter storm to hit the state tonight (Friday). D-O-T Winter Operations director Craig Bargfrede says they have crews standing by. “Typically when we have an event like this that is forecasted and going to impact us over a holiday or over a weekend, we will shift...

KIMT - 11/24/2025 06:17:00 PM. On December 11, former Iowa Governor and U.S. Ambassador to China, Terry Branstad, was presented with the Iowa Award, the state's highest honor for citizens. The award recognizes outstanding service in fields such as science, law, and public service. Governor Kim Reynolds praised...

Paul Lasley’s hobby of restoring old and broken violins and donating them to Iowa State University’s instrument collection program didn’t start with a violin of his own, or really any other stringed instrument — it started with a tin clarinet. When the retired ISU sociology professor was growing up in Queen City,...