DES MOINES, Iowa — A rare rhino will have a new home at Blank Park Zoo in Des Moines. Ajani Joe, known as “AJ," was born at the Cincinnati Zoo in 2020. The zoo says his name means “he who wins the ...

KCCI EIGHT NEWS AT SIX. NEW AT SIX. MAKING PROGRESS. THERE’S JUST ONE STEP LEFT BEFORE CONSTRUCTION ON FLEUR DRIVE IS FINISHED. THAT’S GOOD NEWS. FIRST NATIONAL TEAM AND KCCI HAVE REPORTED THIS WEEK ...

Local officials are warning more than half a million Iowans in the state's capital city and suburbs that near-record level of ...

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds approved the full state standings budget, Senate File 659, Wednesday after emergency response systems officials asked her to veto a provision over concerns it would lead to ...

Landowners impacted by a proposed carbon capture pipeline in Iowa say they are "not going away" and that the debate is "not ...

Two middle school students disciplined for wearing “Let’s Go Brandon” shirts told the court their clothing was political, not ...

Much of the Des Moines metro is now under its first mandatory lawn watering ban as record-high nitrate levels in the Raccoon ...

Drake University has announced the launch of a new Master of Science in Montessori Education program that is designed to ...

Always free! It’s a swinging summer weekend in our reader regions; Rhythms at Riverfront Crossings hosts the P.T.A. Organ ...

US Signal, a Grand Rapids-based provider of network and data center infrastructure, is expanding its platform, with new $200 ...

Des Moines native musician Taylor Mills spent more than a decade touring with Beach Boys co-founder Brian Wilson, who died Tuesday, June 11, 2025, at the age of 82, and she was featured on Wilson's ...