A two-lane highway winds down from the Loess Hills on Iowa’s western edge, past giant wind turbines and fields of corn and soybeans to get to Odebolt. A 20-mile (32-kilometer) stretch of the ...

Waukee city council has approved a $400 million civic campus project that will transform 220 acres of farmland into a new city hall, library, homes, and commercial space.

Iowa Department of Agriculture spokesperson Don McDowell declined to say where in the county — which includes rural areas and suburban cities on the western edge of the Des Moines metro — the ...