Team Des Moines — Mirza Jasarovic, Jacob Kelley, Damier Jones and Conor Patterson — along with seven teams around the Midwest, were given three hours to film a skate session and create a 60 ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — Skate DSM is hosting an adaptive skateboarding competition for the first time as part of its Des Moines ...

A federal judge has ruled that Iowa poll workers may continue challenging the ballots of more than 2,000 Iowans who are on a flawed list of possible noncitizens, denying a request to order ...

It has all the curb appeal of a warehouse but to the Tallgrass Theatre Company it was love at first sight. “It was ...

For the first time since 1938, children in Des Moines, Iowa, will go trick-or-treating on Halloween. The city began its ...

AXTELL, YOU’RE ASKED TO CALL POLICE. THE CITY OF DES MOINES HAS NAMED ITS NEW POLICE CHIEF. DES MOINES POLICE MAJOR MICHAEL MCTAGGART WILL NOW BE CHIEF MCTAGGART. HIS PROMOTION WAS ANNOUNCED ...

Des Moines' new police chief is Michael McTaggart, a 25-year veteran of the department he will now oversee. City Manager Scott Sanders and Mayor Connie Boesen announced the hire at a news conference ...

THANKS FOR JOINING US. THIS AFTERNOON. FIRST AT NOON, A DES MOINES POLICE HAVE MADE AN ARREST IN A WEEKEND SHOOTING. INVESTIGATORS SAY THE VICTIM SHOWED UP AT LUTHERAN HOSPITAL LAST NIGHT JUST ...

Halloween-themed festivities in Des Moines usually take place on Oct. 30, in a “Beggars’ Night” tradition dating to 1940 with an exception in 1978. This year, it changes.

Despite chilly Midwestern winters, the Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden remains a year-round top attraction thanks to the site's domed conservatory, which is kept consistently balmy to nurture ...

Want to avoid the rain on Election Day? Here's when. See the rainfall totals after a soggy weekend Vote for the Register’s male high school Athlete of the Week Vote for the Register’s female ...