Urbandale News

Rising health care costs and requests by city staff to expand coverage benefits for preventive care prompted Urbandale city officials to re-evaluate the city's group health insurance policy.

The Urbandale Public Library meeting room was transformed into an art room Tuesday.

Thanks in large part to the Polk County Master Gardeners, the Urbandale Food Pantry will offer fresh vegetables to the needy this summer.

Register to attend the Urbandale Chamber of Commerce's night at the Iowa Speedway on Saturday.

Urbandale's Fourth of July festivities got off to a soggy beginning Friday at Lions Park.

Parade and festivities mean fun and games for some, pride and emotional memories for others.

From staff reports Ride for Gabus, childhood literacy Register by Friday for the inaugural Charles Gabus Memorial Bike Ride at 1 p.m. July 5 at Walker Johnston Park, 9000 Douglas Ave.

Connxions Book Store and Conference Center, 3901 N.W. 121st St., will host a panel discussion on the state of the economy from 7 to 8:30 p.m. July 14.

One of the Polk County sheriff's deputies involved in the fatal shooting of an Urbandale man has returned to duty although a state investigation into the June 8 incident is not completed.

Results of Monday's text-vote election are in: Buster and The Punks, an Urbandale teen band, will take the stage this weekend during the second 80/35 Music Festival in Western Gateway Park in Des Moines.

Urbandale City Council member Mary Polson still cringes when she hears the word Razamatazz.

Volunteers from the Urbandale Food Pantry will walk with shopping carts in the Urbandale Fourth of July parade to collect donations of nonperishable food items and personal products, such as shampoo, toilet paper, deodorant, toothpaste, toothbrushes and diapers.

Hundreds of people filled the front and back lawns of the Urbandale Historical Society's Olmsted-Urban house Sunday afternoon, enjoying homemade vanilla ice cream and pies, and slurping down lemonade.

Treasa Brown stared in disbelief Wednesday as a Polk County District Court jury convicted a Des Moines teenager of a less serious charge in the shooting death of her son.

Iowa cities in metropolitan areas have grown the most since 2000 with numbers from the U.S. Census Bureau showing Waukee as the fastest growing city in the state.

This year's vacation Bible school at St. Stephen's Lutheran Church in Urbandale was all about discovery.

A secret competition rages on in Urbandale. Who has the biggest fireworks shells: Living History Farms or the city of Urbandale? Cathy Conklin is confident she does.

Prosecutors this morning rested their case in the trial of a Des Moines man accused of shooting a rival gang member last year outside an Urbandale bar.

Nine children and one adult were taken to the hospital this afternoon after two vans collided on Iowa Highway 141 near Grimes.

During a special petting zoo at the Urbandale Public Library on Tuesday , young library-goers weren't petting soft fur or fine feathers, but the cool metal of musical instruments.