Canva How Des Moines feels about climate change Stacker compiled statistics about how people in Des Moines feel about ...

Donald Trump has dropped his lawsuit against famed Iowa pollster J. Ann Selzer, the Des Moines Register, and the newspaper’s ...

Nitrates, fecal bacteria, sediment and other pollutants in the Des Moines and Raccoon rivers threaten safe drinking water for ...

The Des Moines School Board OK'd district officials to move ahead with process to place bond question on November ballot.

Iowa became the first state to remove gender identity from its civil rights code under a law that took effect Tuesday, ...

The Polk County Board of Supervisors released the Central Iowa Source Water Resource Assessment (CISWRA) at its meeting ...

In 2013, Des Moines relied heavily on the treatment facilities as nitrate levels in the Racoon River surged to a whopping 24 milligrams per liter, worsened by a flood that followed drought conditions.

Republican Christopher Prosch has been outspoken about his belief that rape victims should have to carry their pregnancies to ...

A new $1.9 million project aims to reduce nitrate runoff into Beaver Creek, a stream that flows directly into Central Iowa’s ...

President Donald Trump boarded Air Force One Thursday afternoon to speak at the Iowa Fairgrounds.  The evening kicked off ...

Several Des Moines metro splash pads are shut down as the metro is under its first-ever lawn watering ban. Central Iowa Water Works — the Des Moines region's water authority — on June 12 ...

Sarah Green is a Des Moines native, currently serving as the executive director of the Iowa Environmental Council. This article originally appeared on Des Moines Register: Call it what you want.