DART will provide free rides to cooling centers while the Polk County Extreme Temperature Plan is in effect.

Faced with a water-quality crisis, Iowa grapples to find a solution: Is it more treatment, voluntary conservation, regulation ...

The exhibit reveals the extent of economic hardship faced by even full-time workers in Des Moines who can’t find or afford ...

That’s what one person asked The Gazette’s Curious Iowa — a series that answers readers’ questions about our state and how it ...

Iowa is known having more affordable housing than other states. A report looks at whether minimum wage workers can afford fair market rent.

Iowa water bans are a sign of the state’s intensifying struggle with high nitrate levels in streams and rivers that supply ...

Across Iowa, funding cuts to the national service agency AmeriCorps ordered earlier this year by the Department of Government ...

A building permit has been issued for a long-awaited mixed-use project in the neighborhood adjacent to Drake University, a ...

Overcoming the loss of his legs, Andy Bales rides RAGBRAI to raise funds for Children and Family Urban Movement, his Des ...

Central Iowa Water Works, which serves 600,000 central Iowa customers, issued a lawn watering ban on June 12 in response to high nitrate levels in the Raccoon and Des Moines rivers, which are the area ...

Gov. Kim Reynolds says regulation is not the answer to address high nitrate levels in Iowa’s drinking water, and farmers are already adopting conservation practices voluntarily. Asked about protesters ...