A Buena Vista University alumna celebrating the 30th anniversary of her graduation will serve as commencement speaker for the university’s undergraduate ceremony to be held at 2 p.m. on Saturday, …

Buena Vista County Engineer Bret Wilkinson has sketched out a financing plan for the grading and paving of four miles of gravel roads around Platinum Crush’s soybean crushing campus near Hwy. 7 …

“The number of big fish we’re seeing is pretty incredible,” says DNR fisheries Biologist Ben Wallace as he and his crew finish up a week of gillnetting on Thursday. They will have netted over …

Nikki Haley acknowledged she is far from a frontrunner in the Iowa   Republican Caucuses.   The former governor of South Carolina and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations told a crowd …

Meet Grant Wells, an entrepreneur, salesman, farmer and innovator.   In 2009, he started his own company   — Wells AG Supply — which has grown to become a sprawling complex on a …

The U.S. Office of the Chief Information Officer will hold a meeting at 6 p.m. on April 24 at Storm Lake Middle School to discuss broadband and digital equity issues. Storm Lake is one of the 55 …

The City of Storm Lake dismissed a cross-petition against a contractor who stabilized the Storm Lake Marina’s 84 slip docks at the behest of its commercial operator. The city dismissed its claim …

A medical staffing company of Milford sued a closing Albert City nursing home for two months of unpaid nursing care services.  A lawsuit filed last month in Buena Vista County District Court …

Bobalee Hydraulics of Laurens was fined $26,534 in civil penalties to resolve alleged violations of the federal resource conservation and recovery act.   The federal agency’s Region 7 …

Of the 22 water systems in Buena Vista and Cherokee counties, only six of them will be tested for forever chemicals by the end of the summer.   The Iowa Department of Natural Resources last …

The Storm Lake City Council last month hired a Storm Lake farmer to haul 520 tons of “biosolids” away from its wastewater treatment plant. The council awarded Bryce Widman the contract to …

The Sac County Board of Supervisors are exploring the possibility of building a new jail.  Sheriff Ken McClure said the county has begun “preliminary discussions” on renovating the jail …

Officials with the City of Storm Lake and Buena Vista County have claimed a special audit into what might be decades of incorrectly distributed tax-increment financing revenues isn’t warranted. …

Assessments in Buena Vista County are expected to track with what has been a robust housing and commercial property market in 2022. Assessments were mailed to all property owners in Buena Vista …

Long-time Storm Lake teacher and soccer coach Ben Schekirke has been hired as the next principal at Alta-Aurelia High School. “We believe Ben to be a good fit for Alta-Aurelia as we feel he …

A Fonda nursing home has been fined $6,500 for failing to suction the airway of a U.S. Army veteran who suffocated while employees of the home stood by. According to public records, Marvin …

A reader called the Storm Lake Times Pilot office on March 31 to report that swans appeared to be huddled together at the far west edge of Little Storm Lake. Upon further examination through the fog, …

UnityPoint Health has denied claims leveled in Dr. David Crippin’s $3.7 million lawsuit against the health system for an alleged “perp walk” the system's administrators forced him to undergo in …

The City of Storm Lake and its former marina operator, Buoy’s Bar & Grill, will pay $215,000 to a man who fell off one of Storm Lake Marina’s slip docks in 2018.   City Manager Keri …

Search turns up pound of meth Storm Lake police arrested a man with 463 grams — more than a pound — of methamphetamine.   Officers stopped Martin Mancilla Gomez, of Denison, for a …