Kids around Des Moines, Iowa, will go trick-or-treating on Halloween day for the first time since 1938, but only due to forecasted rain and storms ruining their traditional "Beggars' Night.

This year, severe weather forced the city to break with tradition and push the festivity to Halloween. Beggar’s Night saw thunderstorms and fog while Halloween is forecast to see prime ...

Officials will conduct a post-Halloween survey to see if the city should consider steering future Beggars’ Night festivities away from a school night, Schulte added. When it comes to Beggars ...

where the city took a different approach more than seven decades ago. Instead, Des Moines children don their costumes on Beggars’ Night, typically the day before Halloween. And besides screaming ...

A BIG CHANGE FOR TRICK OR TREATERS HERE IN DES MOINES. THE CITY COUNCIL JUST VOTED TO MOVE TRICK OR TREATING FROM BEGGARS NIGHT TO HALLOWEEN. THE CITY HAS HELD TRICK OR TREATING ON OCTOBER 30TH ...

LAST NIGHT, THE URBANDALE CITY COUNCIL VOTED TO MOVE TRICK OR TREATING FROM BEGGARS NIGHT, WHICH IS OCTOBER 30TH TO HALLOWEEN, OCTOBER 31ST. THAT STARTS NEXT YEAR. THE CHANGE WAS MADE IN RESPONSE ...

Urbandale has become another city in the Des Moines metro to move trick-or-treating to Halloween night after a dark and stormy weather forecast this fall led to a metro-wide conversation about the ...