At Hiatt Middle School, a dress code is standard operating procedure. Ordinarily the color scheme is khaki and navy blue. But last night it was a special one that called for lots of red and white and elfin …

The DMPS high school wrestling programs faced a predicament. Unless they found a way to grow the sport at lower levels and create the semblance of a feeder system to supply more and better trained athletes, they were …

There were no stopwatches involved but Lolo Jones may have turned in one of her personal best events this morning at Findley Elementary School  where she partnered with Samaritan’s Feet, a globally scoped nonprofit organization dedicated to shoeing …

For several DMPS students, some wrenches, inner tubes and (elbow) grease were the makings for a perfect weekend. The scene was the Des Moines Bicycle Collective, a local non-profit corporation which promotes bicycling as a means of active …

It’s a shame everyone who fears that notions like honor and sacrifice are lost on the up and coming generation couldn’t have been at the Iowa Gold Star Military Museum at Camp Dodge last night. They would have …