Courtney Crowder

“I have a feeling this year is a lot like ‘18," said one Iowa Democrat, nodding to the year three of Iowa's four U.S. House seats turned blue.

As Sarah Trone Garriott hugged her family and her closest supporters — mere minutes after the state senator officially secured the Democratic nomination for central Iowa's 3rd District — Jason Kerest handed her a $100 check.

History doesn’t lack for revered figures of war.

“I have a feeling this year is a lot like ‘18," said one Iowa Democrat, nodding to the year three of Iowa's four U.S. House seats turned blue.

Ten Iowa beaches are not recommended to swim in over the Juneteenth holiday weekend, according to the DNR.

Des Moines Register The bodies of the eight crew members onboard a United States Air Force B-52 bomber that crashed June 15 will be flown to Dover Air Force Base for identification and burial preparation Friday, June 19.

Des Moines Register Former Kum & Go CEO Tanner Krause is now the interim CEO of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Iowa.

Leading the C-suite of a convenience store corporation may not seem like relevant work experience for taking the helm at the Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Iowa, but, please,

| Des Moines Register This "Search and Rescue" story was told June 2 as part of Tell It Like It Is: Iowa Storytellers Project, funded by

Des Moines Register THE MIDDLE OF IOWA — To get here — right here — you have to take the interstate, I-35, the one that carves the country straight down the middle like the scalpel of a steady surgeon.