Sales of the first Iowa Lottery tickets began in 1985 with a kickoff celebration at the Iowa State Fair. Forty years later, state fairgoers broke the Guinness World Record for the most people — 1,380 ...

WB Realty Co. has acquired former Wells Fargo property at 7001 Westown Parkway and 1725 68th St. in West Des Moines. The brokerage firm paid $16.5 million for the property. Photos courtesy of ...

The Iowa Economic Development Authority is awarding more than $23 million through the Historic Preservation Tax Credit program to revitalize 11 historic properties across the state. The most recent ...

Jeff Pomeranz was city manager in West Des Moines when the community was approached around 2008 by a consultant looking for land on which to build a data center for Microsoft Corp. At the time, ...

Wells Fargo has begun remodeling offices at the company’s 160-acre Jordan Creek campus in West Des Moines in anticipation of relocating a large number of employees to the site. Three building permits ...

FedEx officials recently announced they will be laying off 84 workers at the company’s 700 S.W. Ninth St. facility in downtown Des Moines. Company officials said the layoffs are part of a multi-year ...

Gov. Kim Reynolds recently announced $5 million in funding to expand 19 child care and preschool program partnerships. The Continuum of Care grant program aims to encourage partnerships between child ...

Three affordable housing projects proposed in Des Moines have been awarded federal housing tax credits to support the construction of new rental homes, the Iowa Finance Authority Board announced this ...

Principal Financial Group will consolidate its global asset management and international pension businesses, the company announced today. In a news release, Principal announced the new combined ...

Megan Milligan was in a meeting recently where her mind was wandering off to little bits of fur and feather that have been a part of her life for as long as she has memories. She might have been ...

The Internal Revenue Service has launched a new online assistant designed to help employers, especially small businesses, easily determine the right amount of federal income tax to withhold from their ...