The city secured the rights to a building at 2715 Dayton Avenue, almost three times the size of the current shelter. The ...

The legislation, the president refers to as "One Big, Beautiful Bill," includes provisions barring Medicaid funds from being allocated to Planned Parenthood.

Planned Parenthood North Central States announced it plans to close four clinics in Iowa, leaving the state with just two ...

Planned Parenthood is shutting down more North Central States facilities - including Cedar Rapids' 1st Avenue SE location.The ...

Ames is home to three fire stations and hopes to build a fourth in the near future. The city is trying to "think outside the box," Ames Fire Chief Richard Higgins said, so the new station may not look ...

The existing language in Ames city code is already "a pretty limited set of locations where billboards might be able to go," Phillips said. The property where the digital billboard is planned is ...

After about an hour of discussion, the City of Ames chose not to proceed with a ban on camping and sleeping in public places, deviating from the direction other central Iowa cities have gone.

Ames police say this is the second shooting in the same general location in the last month ... happened around 9 p.m. on Tripp Street on the city's west side. The victim is being treated at ...