Homemakers Furniture is building a new massive warehouse facility near its store in Urbandale. The furniture store says the new 120-thousand-square-foot project is meant to beef up its customer service sector…by allowing customers to get their merchandise quicker. This is the 6th major renovation for Homemakers since it opened its Urbandale store in 1985.
More than 10 trail, park, and road segments in the metro are closed because of high water levels of the Raccoon and Des Moines rivers. As of earlier today, both rivers at southeast 6th street are more than an inch above flood stage and more rain is expected today. Southeast 6th Street is expected to stay in the moderate flood stage for a day or so.
GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz is back in Iowa later this week after a two-month hiatus. Cruz will host town hall meetings in Council Bluffs, Red Oak, and Denison on Friday, and will also be in Johnston on Saturday morning. Cruz last visited with Iowa voters in April.
Three Des Moines neighborhoods are using a half a million dollar grant to improve its community’s health and housing. The project…called Health Homes East Bank…includes poor housing in the Capitol Park, MLK Park, and Capitol East neighborhoods where eroding infrastructure is causing asthma in residents… especially in kids.
After such a successful three-day weekend, officials with Wizard World Comic-Con have announced next year’s convention will be May 13th through the 15th. Thousands of people filtered in and out of the Iowa Events Center to meet comic book and TV series celebrities and dress up as their favorite characters.
More people are landing on the state’s do-not-rehire list, according to state lawmakers…and some of them say they’re concerned because of possible lawsuits. 67 people over the past year have joined the list, which state officials say they need to keep problematic employees off Iowa’s payroll.
Urbandale could soon be getting 200 more jobs, under a proposal from an Ohio-based tech firm. Ventech Solutions is asking for state and city tax incentives to move into an office park on Ridgemont Drive. The company recently received a 10-year $410 million contract to manage data for the federal centers for Medicare and Medicaid services.
Protesters lined up outside the Des Moines police station over the weekend to demand more police accountability. The protests were in the wake of a police chase last week that ended with an officer shooting and killing the suspect. The demonstration was organized by an out-of-state online group that shares negative encounters with law enforcement officers.
If you want to be drunk on your front porch, you won’t be arrested for it…that’s the ruling from the state supreme court. The case involved a Waterloo woman who had a fight with her boyfriend on her front porch, and was nabbed by police for having blood alcohol content way over the legal limit. The woman claimed her front porch is not a public area, and the court agreed.
ISU’s business college is moving up in the rankings. U-S News and World Report tagged it 63rd in the nation, up ten places from last year. The rankings are based in part on faculty work in and out of the classroom.
