While most restaurants, grocery stores, and retail stores will remain open on Presidents Day, that will not be the case for ...

Here are the Des Moines Register's male Athlete of the Week candidates from the Des Moines metro area for the week of Feb. 9-15. DesMoinesRegister.com readers vote to determine the winners, who will ...

The Ames area will send 14 boys to the state wrestling tournament. Ballard leads the way with six, Ames has five, Gilbert has ...

Thursday afternoon, the Iowa House passed a 2.25% increase in state funding for public schools. That’s more than the 2% increase Senate Republicans passed. Democrats say neither one is committing ...

The ban on classroom discussions or lessons acknowledging the identity of anyone except straight, cisgendered individuals, imposed by Gov. Reynolds on K-6 Iowa schools in 2023, would be extended to ...

House Study Bill 84 would extend a law that prohibits curriculum and materials mentioning gender identity and sexual ...

LGBTQ topics would be banned from middle school and high school curriculum under a bill advancing in the Iowa House that ...

DES MOINES — Iowa lawmakers are considering a broader ban on LGBTQ+ topics in schools, which was originally put in place in a 2023 law.

House Study Bill 84 would extend a law that prohibits curriculum and materials mentioning gender identity and sexual ...

As a 2023 law restricting schools from curriculum and instruction related to gender identity and sexual orientation for kindergarten through 6th grade remains challenged in court, state lawmakers on W ...

Iowa's law now bans instruction on gender identity and sexual orientation through sixth grade. A new House bill would expand that through high school.

Several central Iowa schools, including Des Moines, have already started announcing closures ahead of Wednesday's snowstorm.