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DES MOINES, Iowa — President Jimmy Carter served as an example to countless patients with a terminal illness and their families as they

URBANDALE, Iowa — Urbandale's city council voted to update municipal codes Tuesday evening after a proposal to build a Gurudwara, or worship temple for people practicing Sikhism, highlighted outdated language.

MADISON COUNTY, Iowa — A plan to create two new positions in Madison County was tabled by the Board of Supervisors Wednesday after dozens showed up to the meeting to voice concerns about the plan.

DES MOINES, Iowa — Tyson is continuing negotiations with an undisclosed buyer but now says it may also consider others for the facility, according to Perry Mayor Dirk Cavanaugh.

When asked if he is interested in pursuing legislation to further restrict abortion, Iowa House Speaker Pat Grassley told KCCI he hopes to focus on bills that support options other than abortion.

DES MOINES, Iowa — The future of Des Moines sustainability programs remains in limbo after the city laid off the people overseeing such efforts in response to a shortfall in the next fiscal year's budget.

COLFAX, Iowa — Fundraisers and donation drives are underway one day after a Colfax family lost their home on West Broadway Street to a devastating fire.

An arrest in northwest Iowa is sparking hope for the loved ones of a missing Meskwaki woman's family after a decade without answers. Thursday marked 10 years since 41-year-old Rita Papakee was last seen near the Meskwaki Casino in Tama. The Meskwaki Nation Police Department said it spent five days searching a new, potential area of interest in 2024, but the case remains unsolved. For the past decade, Papakee's mother, Iris Roberts, has raised Papakee's four children and watched some of them become parents without her daughter. She said without answers to what happened to Papakee, she struggles to grieve her properly. "I just want closure," Roberts said. "Whoever or whatever they did, I wish they would step up and say, this is what happened."Days before the 10th anniversary of Papakee's disappearance, Roberts said she has hope because of an arrest in another missing Iowan's case. Thomas Duane Popp was arrested Saturday and charged with first-degree murder for the death of 18-year-old Terri McCauley. The arrest comes more than 40 years after McCauley went missing in 1983.Like Papakee, McCauley was Indigenous; she's an Omaha Tribe of Nebraska citizen. Their cases are two of thousands of missing and murdered Indigenous women across the United States. Tricia Rivers with Great Plains Action Society worked with both families to raise awareness of Papakee and McCauley through the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives movement. "We work with a lot of (Missing or Murdered Indigenous relatives) families that have been negatively impacted by this crisis," Rivers said. "This has been happening to us, as indigenous nations, for centuries, and it has morphed into a system or institution."» Subscribe to KCCI's YouTube page» Download the free KCCI app to get updates on the go: Apple | Google PlayThe U.S. Department of the Interior said American Indian and Alaska Native people are at a disproportionate risk of experiencing violence, murder, or going missing. A 2016 National Institute of Justice study found more than four in five Indigenous women will experience violence in their life. In 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also found Indigenous women experienced the second-highest rate of homicide.Roberts and Papakee's other loved ones regularly participate in the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives awareness events, where they connect with other families experiencing similar tragedies. It's part of why they've been able to continue demanding justice for a decade."The fact that we've been able to find community and find support, and raise awareness for her case, it means a great deal," Papakee's cousin, Oliviah Walker,

DES MOINES, Iowa — TikTok influencers and creators in Des Moines are bracing for a Supreme Court decision that could strip them of their platforms and followings.

Wrestlers at a central Iowa club said the NCAA's decision to incorporate women's wrestling as a championship sport changes the potential for their wrestling careers.