DES MOINES, IA – Iowa’s Latino Heritage Festival will celebrate the varied flavors of the Latino community through music, food, dance, art, culture and much more. “Sabores de Iowa” is the theme for this year’s event and celebrates the Latino community’s varied history and culture with Latinos coming to Iowa
Read More →Waukee, Iowa — The City of Waukee is announcing that Rudy Koester will soon be promoted to the position of Public Works Director/City Engineer. Waukee’s long-time Public Works Director John Gibson will retire at the end of September, and Koester will step into this leadership role on October 1. He
Read More →By Jackie Wilson Singer, guitarist and former Chicago band member, Peter Cetera, had just finished a bike ride in his hometown of Idaho, when he took the time to speak with CITYVIEW about his upcoming concert at the Iowa State Fair on Aug. 18. As a former Chicago frontman with
Read More →DES MOINES, IA (July 12, 2018) – A longtime school leader who has dedicated her career to educating Des Moines Public Schools students will become the principal of the district’s newest Montessori school. Renita Lord, current principal of Garton Elementary School, will take the helm as principal of Northeast Montessori
Read More →Urbandale, Iowa – The City of Urbandale’s Community Development Department issued a total of 483 building permits in the first six months of 2018, with a total valuation of $67 million. This is the highest total mid-year valuation since 2004. Of the building permits issued from January through June 2018
Read More →DES MOINES – A robot helps cancer patients take virtual tours of an art museum. Communal dinners serve guests a taste of history. A restored courthouse clock tower will keep on ticking for another 100 years. These are just three of more than 200 statewide projects that received more than
Read More →July 11 – Altoona, IA. Prairie Meadows has given a record amount in charitable donations to the community this year. As a nonprofit organization, Prairie Meadows strives to promote economic development, jobs, agriculture, and tourism in the state of Iowa. To continue their dedication to this goal, they awarded more
Read More →DES MOINES, IOWA – Iowa Wild and the American Hockey League announced today the complete 2018-19 schedule. For the fifth time in six seasons, Iowa will open the season at home, as the team hosts Manitoba Moose on Oct. 5 and Oct. 7 for opening weekend. The Wild then faces
Read More →Robert D. Ray, Iowa’s 38th governor, who never stopped serving the state and its people in recent decades, passed away early this morning in Des Moines. Gov. Ray was 89. He had dealt with Parkinson’s disease and died peacefully of natural causes at Wesley Acres, according to David Oman, Ray’s
Read More →This weekend, as floodwaters waters ravaged our community, the Animal Rescue League of Iowa (ARL) was there to help the pets that were displaced. As waters continued to rise, our Mobile Rescue Teams assisted in removing 19 horses from a flooded property and transported them to safe housing after the
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