Polk County News

The City of West Des Moines, West Des Moines Mayor Steve Gaer, Iowa Governor Terry Brandstad, and other officials announced Iowa's next big company investment: Microsoft's $1.1 billion dollar expansion of "Project Alluvion", to be built in southern Polk County.

Southeast Polk plans to join a lawsuit that challenges Pleasant Hill's decision to extend the Copper Creek TIF district by an additional 20 years, stemming tax dollars available to the school district.

Police are seeking an escaped inmate who was last seen in the area of 73rd Street and Hickman Road in Urbandale.

Sgt. Gary Lang with the Clive Police Department says the male inmate escaped Thursday afternoon during a transport from Polk County to Dallas County for a court appearance.

Officials from West Des Moines and Polk County will join Gov. Terry Branstad for a news conference Friday morning to discuss Project Alluvion .

A lawyer for a Des Moines doctor accused of prescribing large amounts of narcotic painkillers was denied a mistrial request in the case.

Top staffers of Gov. Terry Branstad pressured the state's employment board to hire a longtime friend of the administration as an administrative law judge in an attempt to stack the deck against public employee complaints, the chairman of the board told The Des Moines Register this week.

A group of health advocates will plant a community garden in Altoona's Lions Park this spring.

Two Des Moines residents have been arrested in the kidnapping and beating of a man found in the trunk of a car.

A major development has been announced for a parcel of land in Altoona that is expected to draw shoopers from more than 100 miles away.

A 21-year-old Des Moines man has been charged with vehicular homicide after the death of a motorcyclist injured in a collision on March 29. Polk County Jail records say Jacob Phipps remained in custody on Thursday, pending $25,000 bail.

Families can benefit from getting out into the Des Moines community. Trying new things can be frugal and free and give parents and kids something different to talk about as well as inspire new ideas.

Tony Garcia placed first in the 3,000-meter steeplechase at the Simpson-Wunnenburg Invitational track meet.

A fire crew on the fifth floor of the Younkers Building has just minutes to get out before part of the building collapsed Investigators still trying to work out what started the fire that destroyed the Younkers Building last Saturday.

Tonight, KCCI's Mark Tauscheck shows us the business-side of Gay Marriage. He's LIVE from Downtown Des Moines.

The Southeast Polk school district could join a legal fight over Pleasant Hill's use of tax increment financing to support a controversial warehouse development about a half mile west of Southeast Polk High School.

Eastern Polk County residents grilled state transportation officials last week about plans for a bridge deck replacement slated for 2015 on Iowa Highway 316.

A 23-year-old Des Moines man has been arrested, accused of firing a gun at another man in a southeast neighborhood parking lot.

The invasive pest hasn't been found in Polk County yet but it likely won't be long before it is.

Drivers passing through eastern Polk County next week will likely notice a sure sign of spring: Road construction projects.