Hoyt Sherman Place Foundation is receiving $60,000 of grant money from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Iowa ...

Iowa State University is participating in an initiative to increase the number of veterinarians working in rural areas, ...

Sarah Wells Kocsis, a director on the public health team at the Milken Institute, shared during Iowa Healthiest State ...

A new program from the Greater Des Moines Partnership will connect prospective and new residents with existing Greater Des Moines residents who are engaged in the community. The DSM MVP program stems ...

Compiled by Mathany Ahmed and Emily Barske Wood As we do each year, we asked our readers to cast votes for what Des Moines ...

As part of Business Publications Corp.’s Envision Iowa think tank series, we spoke Aug. 22 with three experts who work with ...

Cooper, our 18-pound, 13-year-old orange cat has a new name. Most of the 15 cats Amy and I have parented over our 49 years of ...

As an ongoing feature, staff members at the Des Moines Public Library will recommend a business-related book to add to your ...

The National Science Foundation has awarded Simpson College a $338,000 STEM grant that will be used over a three-year period to redesign Simpson’s data analytics minor. Simpson’s math department, led ...

Meals from the Heartland has set a goal of packaging 2 million meals during its annual Hunger Fight event this fall, according to a news release. Thousands of volunteers are needed to help with the ...

More than 100 volunteers have worked since Friday building family homes at On With Life’s Ankeny campus, 715 S.W. Ankeny Road. The construction of the homes is part of Hubbell Realty Co.’s sixth ...

Four Hunger Heroes honorees were recently recognized during Business Publications Corp.’s annual Iowa Stops Hunger event discussing food insecurity in Iowa. During the Sept. 5 event moderated by dsm ...