SIOUX CITY -- Six cities will be feted today as Iowa Great Places, the newest members of a select group that includes Sioux City. Four years ago this month, with fanfare, Sioux City was one three ...

Cedar County has been designated an Iowa Great Place, and Davenport has been redesignated as such, making both communities eligible for funding for certain improvement projects. The designation is a ...

WATERLOO — The Cedar Valley is once again one of the state’s “great places.” The Department of Cultural Affairs has recognized the Waterloo and Cedar Falls metropolitan area under its Iowa Great ...

CLINTON, Iowa — More than a year after Clinton was named one of the first Iowa communities to take part in the Iowa Great Places program, residents should begin seeing some of the proposed projects ...

Hidden in plain sight, I never understood the treasure that the Historic Mehaffy Bridge is until I was out of the car. Late last summer, my husband saved this spot on the map as a great place to go ...

DES MOINES -- Mason City officially joined the Iowa Great Places initiative Monday with the public signing of a contract with Gov. Chet Culver. The event was held in front of the Statehouse next to a ...

CLEAR LAKE — Gov. Tom Vilsack's Iowa Great Places program comes to the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake from 4 to 6 p.m. on Tuesday, May 17. Iowa Great Places is designed to bring together the resources of ...

CEDAR FALLS - The Cedar Valley is in the running for being named an Iowa Great Place. The designation, made by the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs, recognizes communities willing to work together ...

Mason City has new confirmation from the Iowa state officials: It's a "Great Place." Friday, the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs re-designated Mason City as an Iowa Great Place for the Mason City ...

The Great Places program combines resources from state government to capitalize on all of the following aspects of the chosen Iowa great places: ...