Chief politics reporter Brianne Pfannenstiel covers local and state politics, plus national politics for USA TODAY ...

Addison Lathers covers growth and development, from neighborhood ice cream shops to downtown skyscrapers.

Four leaders of the Afghan community established in Des Moines beginning in 2021 are on a quest to build a mosque and ...

Des Moines. We're on the edge of Beaverdale. Maybe we're actually in Beaverdale. I say we're from Beaverdale, though. I ...

Former president George W. Bush took the internet by storm during the 2025 Inauguration of President Donald Trump, where the ...

With a new year comes a new Des Moines Register's Student of the Week poll. This week's poll pits three Des Moines Public ...

This past week saw a lot of exciting action from Iowa high school male sports teams from the Des Moines metro area.

Des Moines police shot a 36-year-old man wanted on a felony warrant Friday afternoon in the city’s Highland Park neighborhood ...

Central Iowa has become a haven for all things fried chicken, especially in sandwich form. Des Moines already has Chick-fil-A ...

From October through April, deicers help keep airports across the world open. Deicers help clear airplanes whenever there is ...

Numbers from the Home Builders Association of Greater Des Moines show that on average, less than 1,100 townhomes are being ...