The Des Moines Public Library will eliminate Sunday service hours at two of its largest branches, Central and Franklin Avenue, after Oct. 25, the Board of Trustees decided Wednesday. The change is a d...

I have lost patience with the sector’s talk of diversity when it refuses to acknowledge those people who can’t afford to keep playing, says conductor and composer Robert Ames

We all need a safe place to sleep. Yet, facing a surging housing crisis, our government is arresting and forcibly institutionalizing homeless people rather than investing in affordable housing and other known solutions. Congress must intervene to protect unhoused people's rights.

With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...

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Since September, the Trump administration has murdered nearly 90 people in international waters, ordering over 20 lethal strikes on civilian boats near Venezuela. Congress must conduct oversight and c...

Penguin Random House and eight co-plaintiffs have renewed their legal challenge to Iowa’s school book ban. The coalition of the country’s largest publishing houses, the Author’s Guild, two bestselling...

These ‘horrormance’ picks from ‘Devil Inside’ author Clay McLeod Chapman will keep you turning those pages —even if you’ve got one eye squeezed shut while you do

KOSA is an alarming bill that would enable censorship and violate young people’s First Amendment right to freely access information. We must call on Congress to act now and protect free speech online.

As Iowa’s Education Savings Account program continues to expand to include all K-12 families, rural public school districts are still trying to determine how the scholarships will affect their classro...

Ah, summer. There's so much to do, so much fun to be had...and a lot of it cuts in on reading time. So while you're off at the beach, or camping, or

Opera lovers braved the sweltering summer weather this past holiday weekend for some world-class productions, care of Des Moines Metro Opera.  The opera company was the subject of a series of Des Moin...

The last time you paid to see live music, you probably didn’t think much about the venue itself. You thought about the band, the traffic you would endure, whether you could get a drink before the open...

The Trump administration is trying to push trans people out of public life. Congress must act immediately to block federal funds from being used to carry out discriminatory executive orders – and end President Trump's obsessive attacks on our fundamental rights.