The ape cognition research center near Easter Lake was founded by Des Moines businessman Ted Townsend as Great Ape Trust in 2002. The initial bonobos arrived in 2004. Bonobos are great apes closely ...

Click the FOLLOW button to be the first to know about this artist's upcoming lots, sold lots, exhibitions and articles Kristine “Kutz” De Jesus didn’t start her career in art. For two decades, she ...

Voss serves on boards such as the Blank Park Zoo, the Des Moines Arts Festival and the Friends ... lawyer at the Environmental Law & Policy Center, which joined a group called Clean Up MidAm ...

A former art teacher who sexually abused students at a school in Surrey where he taught has been jailed for 14 years. Terrence John Waters, 82, of Wren Garth in Beeford, East Yorkshire ...

Jeff Goodman was first to report the news. Stirtz informed the Register that he plans to test NBA Draft waters but will maintain college eligibility with the intent to play for Iowa next season. The ...

IT HAPPENED AT NORTHEAST 26TH STREET IN DES MOINES THIS MORNING. MULTIPLE FIRE DEPARTMENTS HELPED PUT THE FIRE OUT, WHICH YOU CAN SEE IN THESE PICTURES. HERE WAS, YEAH, DEFINITELY ENGULFING THAT ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — Des Moines’ first-ever board game cafe is set to open sometime this spring. Many Des Moines gamers know The Rook Room as a pop-up event at local businesses. Tony Tandeski and ...

The Des Moines Art Festival along with the World Food and Music Festival earned top 10 finishes for their respective categories in the USA TODAY 10BEST Readers' Choice Awards. USA TODAY 10BEST ...

The Iowa Environmental Council, Sierra Club, and Environmental Law & Policy Center issued a letter of intent to sue, as mandated under the Clean Water Act ... of the Des Moines River, according ...

STOCKHOLM, March 18 — Defiantly flipping off both middle fingers, a mermaid made of recovered metal scraps with hair fashioned out of red plastic tubes was lowered into murky green waters outside ...

It was December 1964. After nearly a decade since its inception, Johnson had broken ground on the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The Center opened its doors to the public in 1971, per ...