Believe it or not, the answer is yes, I do have a fondness for David Lynch,” begins Ben Godar, Executive Director of Varsity Cinema in Des Moines. Losing Lynch, who passed away on Jan. 15, 2025, has ...

It took the Iowa House 11 minutes to pass legislation, 68-31, that would retroactively enact a five-year moratorium on ...

Our journey through Iowa’s 99 counties began in January with a visit to Kossuth County in the north, which is not the only location named after Lajos Kossuth, Hungary’s freedom fighter during the ...

Shutterstock The Most Violent Mining Towns in the Old West The Silver State’s ghost towns weren’t all peaceful mining camps that simply dried up when the ore ran out. In fact, some of the West’s most ...

When you envision the future of sustainable living, do you picture a dense city or the rural countryside? You likely jump to ...

The vast diversity of Native American groups probably isn't something you covered all that in-depth in your U.S. history ...

Iowa lawmakers hope to fast-track legislation that would thwart Cedar Rapids casino backers' hopes for a new $275 million ...

Bills to create a five-year moratorium on new state-licensed casinos in Iowa have been introduced by Republicans in both ...

Palestinians in Gaza are confronting an apocalyptic landscape of devastation after more than 15 months of fighting between ...

University of Arizona Steward Observatory astronomers have discovered “cosmic ghost towns” that were halted in their development by cosmic forces billions of years ago. The “ghost towns,” named ...

For a vacation to Italy, Ramy Awad wanted an adventure. So he picked Fossa, a town deep in the middle of the country that was abandoned after a 2009 earthquake. But things quickly went sideways ...

PLYMOUTH – Winooski is a ghost town that, at one time, supported a U.S. Post Office, a sawmill, grist mill, general store, village hall, cooper, blacksmith, woodworking shops, a cheese factory ...