Polk County is ready to utilize the River Place as an overnight extreme temperature shelter if Central Iowa Shelter Services ...

Crews are renovating the building at 1900 Carpenter Ave. in Des Moines to make way for Global Neighbors, a resource hub for ...

Lawyers for the State of Iowa are asking a judge to dismiss a public-records lawsuit by arguing the Iowa Supreme Court’s ...

Polk County Administrator John Norris has been placed on administrative leave and says he was asked to resign Friday after a shift in power on the county's Board of Supervisors. Norris, a former head ...

Former Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad said President Donald Trump has expanded Republicans' base in Iowa since his first term in ...

An Iowa man was sentenced to 55 years in prison over the kidnapping of a former girlfriend in September — a conviction comes ...

The law would require the state’s largest counties — and those with a regent university — to elect supervisors from districts ...

Polk County Republicans held their own celebration for the inauguration in Des Moines on Monday. The event was held at the World Food Prize. Former U.S. Ambassador to China and former Iowa Gov. Terry ...

For more than a decade, the state and county have coveted a high-speed alternative to U.S. 27. Two public meetings are ...

(Red Oak) - A southwest Iowa native and stalwart of Iowa politics is near the center of controversy in Polk County.

The bill would require counties with a population of 125,000 or more, or which are home to a public university, use ...