This year is the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the extermination and concentration camps. After World War 2 ended in ...

Professor Dana York, DDS, MS, PhD, is the first mayoral candidate in history to receive the Médaille de Vermeil from the ...

On Sept. 27, 1822, French philologist Jean-François Champollion announced that he had deciphered ancient Egyptian ...

Former Des Moines school superintendent Ian Andre Roberts has a lengthy criminal history, according to the Department of Homeland Security. Roberts resigned after being arrested by federal immigration ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — A new restaurant opened Thursday morning in downtown Des Moines that honors the city’s history. The Empire is located at the former Fong’s Pizza location on 4th Street. When the ...

The now former superintendent of Des Moines Public Schools is facing growing public scrutiny following a bizarre set of circumstances that allegedly unraveled as Federal Immigration agents took him ...

Average statewide temperatures: July 14, 108.8; July 13, 107.1; Aug. 18, 106.4; July 15, 106.4; July 24, 106.1; July 17, 105.6; July 25, 102.9. Seven of the hottest ...

IOWA CITY — There was nearly a casualty on Kaden Wetjen’s kickoff-return touchdown against Rutgers: Iowa football special teams coordinator LeVar Woods’ hamstring. Wetjen caught the game’s opening ...

It might seem unfathomable to us living today, but 179 years ago on this very date, our galaxy, The Milky Way, actually grew by one planet. Okay, okay, we know, that that is not what actually happened ...

Learn all about Midwestern rural life at this outdoor history museum, which spans 500 acres. Among the attraction's four sites are a recreated Ioway Indian farm from the 1700s, an 1850s pioneer farm, ...

A historical sketch of the first 50 years of the California Academy of Sciences, the oldest scientific society in the western U.S., was produced by Academy member Theodore H. Hittell, a noted attorney ...

St. Patrick's Day is mostly a U.S.-based event, though cities around the world do celebrate with lots of green and lots of beer. Every year on March 17, people around the world celebrate Irish ...