The Lakeside City Council is negotiating a 10-year lease with Lakeside Marina Inc. to keep its existing footprint on the Storm Lake shoreline, a move that angered the owners of the recently opened …

Multiple cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza were detected in commercial chicken and turkey flocks last week — a concern for poultry growers in Northwest Iowa, where livestock …

The Storm Lake City Council has approved the city’s new Comprehensive Plan and Zoning Ordinance, commissioned for $125,880 with Bolton and Menk, a consulting firm based in Spencer.  …

Storm Lake’s newest coffee shop, VeSo, experienced a positive first week of business after their soft opening last Thursday that coincided with Miracle on Lake Avenue. The cafe at 512 Lake …

Two Storm Lake men were arrested and charged with theft for an alleged string of burglaries along three local streets between October and December.  Storm Lake police took Vincen Charley, …

A juvenile who made a "verbal threat" at Aurelia Elementary and the Alta-Aurelia Middle School has been taken into custody by Aurelia police following a brief school lockdown. Students and staff …

Water in all of Newell will be shut off at 12 p.m. today due to a water main break at the school.  The city issued a drinking water advisory this morning, warning Newell residents of the …

A Storm Lake couple are suing two other Storm Lake over an alleged car collision in the Hardee’s parking lot off Flindt Drive in 2022.  Attorney Dan Connell of Storm Lake filed a …

Buffalo Ridge Cafe in Alta is planning to reopen. The restaurant, owned by Toni and Kevin Hammer, operated from 2015-21. It was then sold on contract, becoming known as Crum-Brew-Le, which …

Gov. Kim Reynolds and Iowa Department of Education Director McKenzie Snow announced the recipient of the 2025 Iowa Teacher of the Year award Monday morning during an assembly at Sioux Central in …

“No U-Turn” signs will be going into place on Lake Avenue in downtown Storm Lake this week. While U-turns have already been prohibited by city ordinance, the signage is intended to …

The Buena Vista County Board of Supervisors approved the “Wind Energy Conversion System Ordinance” last Tuesday, the first of its kind in the county. Discussions of the ordinance …

Diedrich Ag, an agricultural company based in Kensett, sued Farm Nutrients of Rembrandt for $142,000 in unpaid labor and equipment from a confinement building cleanup in 2019.  Attorney …

A Sigourney bank sued the owner of a Flindt Drive building that used to house Kentucky Fried Chicken.  County Bank of Sigourney sued Robert Farrell of Newton because he and his associated …

Citizens First National Bank of Storm Lake has filed two more lawsuits against franchises affiliated with Holzhauer Motors.  The bank is now seeking Holzhauer’s real estate at its Storm Lake and Cherokee Ford dealerships. A 24-page lawsuit the bank filed …

“It’s the missing piece of the puzzle,” said Cobblestone co-owner Natalie Schumann Monday evening after finding the marquee that once hung above the main doorway of the Lakeside …

Iowa State University Extension and Outreach Buena Vista County office will offer four opportunities to attend the Private Pesticide Applicator Continuing Instruction Course, led by Extension Field …

An Iowa nurse who was criminally charged in the death of a nursing home resident is facing up to two years in prison after entering a plea in the case. In March, Pocahontas County  …

The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship announced Friday it had detected the H5N1 bird flu in a flock of commercial egg-laying chickens in Sioux County.  Gov. Kim Reynolds …

A Cherokee man was charged with first-degree murder for allegedly inflicting blunt-force trauma on his four-month-old infant, who was later declared deceased at a hospital in Omaha, Neb.  …