Cumming News

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City updating comprehensive plan to include western, southern areas in Dallas, Warren and Madison counties.

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West Des Moines will more than double its territory in Warren County after a state board Tuesday approved a 613-acre annexation.

A state board is expected to decide the fate of a parcel of land between Cumming and West Des Moines.

A California movie production company is scouting out Norwalk to be the location of its next feature film.

After two months of controversy involving sexually charged e-mails and the unexplained absence and resignation of Warren County Assessor David Ellis, the group that oversees the assessor's position decided April 29 to establish a set of rules that guides its meeting procedures.

A West Des Moines commissioner has resigned his post after making remarks during an annexation hearing that city staffers interpreted as inflammatory.

A West Des Moines Plan and Zoning commissioner has resigned after making comments at an annexation hearing that city staff viewed as inflammatory.

Approximately 75 people on April 20 squeezed into a one-room school building six miles west of Cumming to defend the reputation of a 78-year-old man involved in a pickup truck versus bicycle accident April 11 on a rural county road in Madison County.

Nearly 500 cyclists rode their bikes to the statehouse Wednesday to rally for bicycle safety.

A Des Moines bicyclist remains hospitalized after being hit by a trailer being pulled by a passing truck.

In response to a weekend accident, the Iowa Bicycle Coalition is planning a rally ride to the Iowa Capitol at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday.

Bikers are planning a rally Wednesday following a weekend crash that sent a man to the hospital.

After months of waiting, the fight between West Des Moines and Cumming over the piece of land that separates them, could be decided Wednesday night.

Confusion over how there came to be three different meeting agendas prompted members of the group that oversees the Warren County assessor to abort its meeting March 25.

Leaders in Warren County's small towns have filed their city budgets for the 2009-10 year, which begins July 1, with the exception of officials in Lacona.

Ferrall Burgett, owner of The Blue Flame restaurant in Norwalk, poses with one of the key components of his cuisine - charcoal.