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The Harkin Institute has announced it is launching a podcast titled “Canary in a Cornfield.” The podcast, hosted by Adam Shriver, the Harkin Institute’s director of wellness and nutrition, will explore how the policies that shape food and farming systems impact our health, our communities. The first episode is out now and features Sen. Tom…

The Iowa State Conference on Aging will be Aug. 8 at Prairie Meadows in Altoona, bringing together health care providers, housing professionals, nonprofits, policy leaders and innovators in aging services to discuss strategies and solutions to issues facing aging during current federal policy shifts. Among other speakers and opportunities at the conference, the Iowa Department…

Community and business leaders gathered at Gray’s Lake Park off Fleur Drive on Tuesday for a ceremony breaking ground on the Hubbell Trailhead. The trailhead is at the Fleur Dam on the Raccoon River and once complete will include several recreational amenities designed to improve economic development of the region. Known as a river launching point…

After nearly two decades in downtown Des Moines, Oktoberfest’s organizer is relocating the event to Ankeny. The impetus for the move is a scheduling conflict with Des Moines Water Works Park, its previous location, said Melinda Toyne, the festival’s owner and organizer and owner of In Any Event, an event and production company. Before moving…