By Mellow DeTray Here’s our recap of the Des Moines City Council meeting held Thursday night, Sept. 14, 2023: Burning Boat Festival Returns Last New Year’s Eve, Des Moines celebr… Read More

By Mellow DeTray Here’s our recap of the Des Moines City Council meeting held on Thursday night, Aug. 3, 2023: Water District Update Councilmember Vic Pennington updated council on the… Read More

By Mellow DeTray Here’s our recap of the Des Moines City Council meeting held on Thursday night, July 13, 2023: The Hat Stays On To begin the meeting, Mayor Matt Mahoney requested that… Read More

On Tuesday, April 25, 2023, Des Moines Mayor Matt Mahoney released a statement criticizing the Washington State legislature on the Blake Bill (Senate Bill 5536), which was rejected by lawmak… Read More

By Mellow DeTray Here’s our recap of the regular Des Moines City Council meeting held on Thursday, May 4, 2023: Blake Decision: City Ordinance on Hold In a recent legislative… Read More

By Mellow DeTray Here’s our recap of the Des Moines City Council meeting held on Thursday, April 13, 2023: Praisealujah Receives Hearts & Minds Support The meeting began w… Read More

From our sister site The Waterland Blog: A standing-room crowd gathered last Wednesday, Mar. 22, 2023 at the Quarterdeck in Des Moines to discuss the public health impacts from Sea-Tac… Read More

Photo courtesy David Rosen/SlickPix Photography. Dozens of families and kids of all ages – including Santa and Mrs. Claus – gathered Friday night, Dec. 2, 2022 at Big Catch… Read More

By Scott Schaefer Founder/Publisher The Des Moines City Council at its June 23 meeting voted 5-2 to approve a 60-day pilot project starting Aug. 10, 2022 using a 63-passenger whale watc… Read More

By Nicholas Johnson The Des Moines City Council returned Vic Pennington to the dais Thursday night (March 3, 2022) after the former councilmember and three recent city council candidates app… Read More

By Nicholas Johnson Four Des Moines residents have applied to fill a vacancy on the city council created in January when Anthony Martinelli resigned his Position No. 6 seat amid allegations… Read More

By Nicholas Johnson During their first meeting of the year, members of the Des Moines City Council elected councilmember Matt Mahoney to serve as mayor and councilmember Traci Buxton to serv… Read More

By Scott Schaefer Founder/Publisher/Editor Ballots have been mailed, forums have been held, campaign signs are out and voters are deciding on seven local candidates on the ballot for four po… Read More

The City of Des Moines has finished its distribution of the Grant Relief Opportunity (GRO) Program to its business community, and over $500,000 was award to assist local businesses during th… Read More

By Jack Mayne The Des Moines City Council at its regular Feb. 13 meeting – with Councilmember Jeremy Nutting absent – selected former Councilmember Luisa Bangs to fill the vacant… Read More

Natalie & Lilah Nutting were hoping to raise $1,000 at their Lemonade Stand fundraiser on Tuesday. Aug. 20, so they would be able to say they have raised $10,000 over the last four Lemon… Read More

By Jack Mayne The Des Moines City Council at study session Thursday (June 7) approved a two year pilot program to replace the retiring head of Senior Services with a contract with managemen… Read More

By Jack Mayne The first Des Moines City Council meeting of the new year was largely framed around newly elected and reelected members. At the regular Thursday, Jan. 11 Des Moines City Co… Read More

Members of the Des Moines City Council voted 5-2 to approve City Manager Michael Matthias’ pay raise on Jan. 23, 2020. By Jack Mayne At their last meeting in January, the Des Moines Ci… Read More

In 1969, an earnest and forthright 1st grade student named Karen Smith was selected to speak at the grand opening of her new school – Valley View Elementary: 50 years later, a double… Read More

The first round of results for Tuesday’s (Nov. 7) General Election have been released, and the early tallies for Des Moines City Council shows that two incumbents are leading: City Of… Read More