Just inside the main gate of the Iowa State Fairgrounds, major construction is underway. Bulldozers, excavators and graders manned by skilled operators are reshaping the property in time for the next fair in August. It’s the kind of …

Lest anyone think that Friday’s chilly weather conditions also chilled the mood inside the Knapp Center at Drake University, or that this event might have seemed somehow anticlimactic in the wake of the big one we reported on …

Whatever the JC part of the old Penney store downtown on 5th Avenue used to stand for, now the initials mean Justice Center, and art students at Roosevelt High School were commissioned by the Polk County Board of Supervisors …