The Iowa Attorney General’s Office is seeking to commit Ron Taylor to the Cherokee Civil Commitment Unit for Sex Offenders, claiming Taylor’s criminal history and psychological disorders …

High court rules LULAC doesn’t have standing. Lacks standing to sue

Turbine manufacturer anticipates higher price of renewable energy. Blade recycling uncertain.

BV Emergency Management details storm siren criteria. Aimee Barritt: ‘It was over about as quick as it began’

Despite serving as the only Democrat elected to a statewide political office, Rob Sand isn’t running for governor on party lines.  The 42-year-old state auditor formally announced his …

Dominic Klaschen wants to forge a community of car enthusiasts in Storm Lake.  While attending Cherokee Washington High School, Klaschen and his friends regularly travelled to Storm Lake …

Anxieties over the impact of tariffs on the renewable energy sector have forced Allete Clean Energy of Duluth, Minn. to delay its wind turbine project in Buena Vista County until 2027.  …

Lacks standing to sue The Iowa Supreme Court ruled against a nonprofit Latin American rights group that sought to overturn a nearly 20-year-old legal decision prohibiting county auditors from …

All Storm Lake Police Department staff will receive 3.5% wage increases for the next fiscal year, amounting to a $46,000 extra cost for the city.  The Storm Lake City Council approved an …

A Pocahontas County judge allowed to survive a lawsuit filed by a former Fonda Specialty Care employee who claims the nursing home wrongfully fired her in 2023 after she expressed concerns over a …

Ceres Environmental crews to complete three drop-off sites in two days.

Speaker Hugo Perez Loa: ‘We will not be silenced by your tyranny’

As violent crime has risen around Storm Lake’s newest affordable housing development, cameras have been installed around town.  A camera was installed last December at the south end …

Two vehicle-train collisions this year.

After three days of trial and less than an hour of deliberation, a Buena Vista County jury agreed to indefinitely confine Josie Smith to the Cherokee Civil Commitment Unit for Sex Offenders. 

A Buena Vista County jury is deliberating whether Josie Smith should be indefinitely committed to the Cherokee Civil Commitment Unit for Sex Offenders.

How to get rid of debris.

A Storm Lake man who’s been deported from the U.S. three times was sentenced to 20 months in federal prison for illegal reentry over a year after he was arrested for cocaine possession in Buena Vista County.

“It was a bad Friday for me,” said Jas Singh, a Tyson truck driver from Indianapolis, on Friday morning after assessing storm damage to his vehicle.  Sing parked his …

Weather Service declares storm ‘strong straight-line winds.' Take debris to Discovery Center, Field of Dreams, fire station .