Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Frank Allee finally got approved for temporary housing. He just signed up to receive food stamps and Medicaid coverage. Up next on ...

Frank Allee finally got approved for temporary housing. He just signed up to receive food stamps and Medicaid coverage. Up next on his list, he says, is to find a job. So he went back to Central ...

The Des Moines Public Library has cut a social worker and two librarians as part of the city's looming budget cuts. The cuts will impact programming for patrons at Franklin Library. Sue Woody, library ...

Salutations, readers, I'm the Des Moines Register's arts and entertainment reporter Isaac Hamlet and I got my first library card back when signing your name on the card was enough of a necessity that ...

A partnership between Des Moines Public Schools and the city's public libraries gives students access to library resources using their school IDs. The partnership has drawn criticism from groups like ...

AGREED, BUT HAVE SINCE BACKED OUT THE DES MOINES PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM WILL NO LONGER BE COLLECTING LATE FEES ON RETURNED BOOKS. THIS CHANGE STARTS IN JANUARY ON THE 16TH. IT WILL ALSO GET RID OF PAST ...