Beggars’ Night is over in the Des Moines metro. How did the nearly 90-year tradition come to be, and what does its end mean ...

Discover the fascinating tale of the Halloween pumpkin — from Ireland’s legend of Jack O’Lantern to its transformation into a ...

Put succinctly, the history of Halloween as we know it is a muddy, confusing collection of practices that probably owe more ...

Halloween traditions are so ingrained in America that it’s easy to forget the holiday’s history as a pagan celebration marking the conclusion of the harvest, with rituals that were more ...

Halloween is traditionally celebrated on the night of October 31st to November 1st. In 2025, the date falls on a Friday. The ...

Honors4Diversity (H4D) hosted a midterm destressing event where honors students could paint plastic pumpkins and quickly learn some non-academic history about Halloween on Thursday, Oct. 16.

Halloween is a fun celebration for many, but for queer people, it can be an especially meaningful opportunity to honour their ...

From ghost tours to cemetery strolls, the best Halloween travel destinations take travelers into the spookiest corners across ...

Halloween today is about candy, costumes, and spooky fun, with children dressed as superheroes and princesses going ...

Thanks to you for printing and E. MacIntyre for writing the letter last week about the darkness that has overtaken the city.

Today's trick-or-treaters devour candy, but people long ago celebrated Halloween with food that still forms the basis of some ...

All of our decorations are focused around the fall harvest time and consist primarily of pumpkins, gourds and cornucopias, ...