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Peachey's Baking Company is calling it quits on the Iowa State Fair. In those two years, the vendor known for its homemade ...
A commissioning ceremony will be held at a Connecticut shipyard as the first submarine to bear the USS Iowa name becomes an ...
New projects underway at Iowa State Fair ...
At the Des Moines Register, we don't joke about the news, but that doesn't mean we can't indulge in others' April Fools' Day pranks. It doesn't take much investigating to guess these jokes are too ...
"For many fairgoers, part of their Iowa State Fair experience was not a corndog, was not looking at livestock, it was ...
In August 2024, 170 years later, more than a million Iowans flocked to this same event, now housed in Des Moines. With nearly 600 exhibitors and concessionaires, hundreds of displays and one of the ...
It’s being announced Jason Brockshus will be taking over as CEO/Manager effective Saturday, April 19. Brockshus will succeed ...
Mike Larson drove 20 hours one-way last week to eat Iowa State Fair food near a massive, ocean-going namesake of his home ...
WATERLOO — Watch parties are being held around the state the first weekend in April — and not just for the Final Four of the NCAA men’s and women’s basketball tournaments. This “big ...