Western NC offers a variety of budget-friendly family water activities this summer: Hiking to waterfalls, visiting splash ...

The City of Des Moines announced Friday afternoon that it will be temporarily closing its splash pads and some pools to ...

Until further notice, admission to Des Moines pools has been reduced from $5 to $1 for children and $2 for adults. Children ages two and younger are free.

Among the orders issued as Union troops arrived in Texas at the end of the Civil War was one declaring that all enslaved people in the state were now free, and had “absolute equality.” (AP Video: ...