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." ...

For 80 years, many central Iowa communities scheduled trick-or-treating on Oct. 30, which has come to be known as Beggars' ...

Unlike the majority of the country, communities in the Des Moines metro area go trick-or-treating during Beggars’ Night, the day before Halloween, thanks to a policy-turned-tradition dating back ...

Instead, Des Moines children don their costumes on Beggars' Night, typically the day before Halloween. And besides screaming, "Trick-or-Treat," children are expected to tell a joke before ...

Unlike in the rest of the United States, Halloween-themed festivities in Iowa’s capital city and surrounding suburbs usually take place each year on Oct. 30 — a tradition known as Beggars ...

Ever since, kids go trick-or-treating on the night before Halloween, known locally as Beggars’ Night, while Halloween is reserved for adult and family-oriented activities, according to the ...

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 ...

It's almost time for the spookiest Iowan tradition of all: Beggars' Night! The Halloween-themed festivities usually takes place during the evening hours of Oct. 30 in the Des Moines metro area ...