Community members are continuing to pressure Des Moines leaders to reinstate the city's sustainability office, which was ...

The city of Des Moines and its legal team will negotiate with a developer, seeking to make his townhome project more ...

Des Moines' city manager says cutting hours of city services and leaving open city positions unfilled are on the table to ...

A recently enacted state law has pushed central Iowa cities to reexamine how much they can afford to invest in groups ...

Many areas now dominated by single-family homes will need denser housing; the City Council should insist on it, writes the ...

Instead of voting to approve or deny the plans to redevelop a blighted property on the western edge of Des Moines, City Council unanimously decided to ask the developer to reduce the number of ...

Late in 2024 the City of Des Moines ordered all homeless camps to be removed. Now the City Council is weighing an option for ...

City ordinance requires the approval of a supermajority of the council when opposition is this uniform. But that opposition does not sink the project unilaterally. Des Moines needs tens of ...

The city of Des Moines shut down the department that oversees its climate action plan after terminating two of its employees Friday, according to the Iowa Environmental Council and Des Moines City ...

All three finalists have experience as elected officials. The County Council will chose one to fill the vacancy.

West Des Moines City Council members approved the design process to begin and construction could start in September.