DES MOINES, Iowa — Seven organizations across Iowa will receive a total of $75,506 in AARP Community Challenge grants for 2025. The grants are part of AARP’s $4.2 million effort to fund 383 ...

The “Shrink Smart Small Towns” were initially identified in a 2017 Iowa State publication, based on ISU-compiled Iowa “Small Towns Project” polling data from the early 1990s.

After looking at state road map, photographer captures Iowa's lost towns in 1996 exhibit They could be anywhere any time their Iowa's lost towns. There are towns that because of one reason or ...

The top Iowa City-area athletes will battle for a state crown at the 2025 Iowa high school state track and field meet, which will run May 22-24 at Drake Stadium. Here are the 10 athletes to keep ...

And then we have an ongoing poll at Iowa State called the Iowa Small Town Poll that goes back to the early ‘90s. So we've been tracking 99 small towns in Iowa since the early 1990s. That's how ...

That same year, Iowa cities with populations between 10,000 and 50,000, such as Ottumwa, received close to $28.1 million in direct financial assistance from the state and federal government.

It’s no secret that Iowa's rural towns have seen a population decrease. Since the 1980s, younger people have been leaving for jobs in Des Moines and other larger cities.

The “Shrink Smart Small Towns” were initially identified in a 2017 Iowa State publication, based on ISU-compiled Iowa “Small Towns Project” polling data from the early 1990s.

SIOUX CITY -- The Northwest Iowa towns of Remsen and Lake Park will each receive sizable state grants to carry out substantial infrastructure improvements. The Iowa Economic Development Authority ...

Counties and cities in Iowa would be blocked from having diversity, equity and inclusion offices under a bill advanced by an Iowa House panel Tuesday.. The bill would prohibit efforts to make city ...

Two of the town's greatest attractions to new residents, she said, are the easy 10-mile commute to Iowa City on four-lane Highway 218 and a kindergarten-through-sixth-grade elementary school that ...

The eastern Iowa city has more than 137,000 people, according to the U.S. Census. Cedar Rapids has more than 30 murals throughout the downtown for visitors to take part in an art walk. Cedar ...