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Sixty-eight days after flooding left Rock Valley devastated, community leaders and Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds gathered to praise the work done in that time to ensure school started this fall.
Patrick Baughman, valedictorian of Sioux City West High School’s class of 2023, ends his speech with a declaration for trans rights and against "banned books" during graduation.
"I'll be your president a year from now, thank you, Sioux City," Yang said midway through the 45-minute rally. The Morningside College stop drew nearly 200 people.
Our Opinion: DeSantis represents the GOP's best shot at regaining the White House. Through it all, he and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley have made the most compelling cases to choose someone other than former president Donald Trump for the job.
From the Editorial Board: "The Journal has endorsed Sen. Chuck Grassley every time he has run for Senate and, more than likely, we would have done so this year, too.
Iowa was once viewed as the standard by which other states measured their public schools. We set the bar and, now, rather than shore up that revered system, majority Republicans seem to want to cripple it.
We believe the nation would be well-served by a spirited contest between principles and ideas from the Obama-Biden years and the strikingly different ones of the Trump-Pence years. Iowa Democrats should send that message to the rest of America.
Police expenses for the rally for former President Donald Trump totaled $10,002.38, according to Sioux City Finance Director Teresa Fitch. "The city has not received any reimbursement to date for
Andrew Yang says he is talking about the issues that led to Republican President Donald Trump’s election in 2020, and that he is resonating with voters who looked to Trump to address those issues.
In the last days before the election, Franken is campaigning in nearly 30 counties across the state with the hopes of influencing enough Iowans to put him over the finish
Six-term Republican Rep. Megan Jones, Sioux Rapids, was one of six GOP legislators in the Iowa House to vote against a ban on gender-affirming care for minors. "The legislature is coming in and literally intervening with a kid’s healthcare."
SIOUX CITY – A proposed taxpayer-funded private school tuition assistance program has passed the Iowa Senate and is aimed for the Iowa House and some Sioux City legislators and the Sioux City Community School District do not support it.
A federal jury has found Kim Taylor guilty on 52 counts of voter fraud. She was accused of conducting a scheme in which she fraudulently filled out voting forms and ballots on behalf of numerous Vietnamese voters, many of whom have limited English skills.
Storm Lake students are an easy target for racists. The district's ethnic makeup is 53 percent Hispanic, 18 percent Asian, 15 percent white, 7 percent Pacific Islander and 6 percent Black.
SIOUX CITY -- Nikki Haley, who has declared her intent to seek the GOP presidential nomination, will swing through northwest Iowa next month with Iowa Republican U.S. Rep. Randy Feenstra
DES MOINES -- Gov. Kim Reynolds on Monday signed into law sweeping legislation that will significantly alter Iowa’s elections, including by reducing the amount of time for early voting.
SIOUX CITY -- Fifty-one weeks months ago on a cold evening, Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang drew about 30 people in a private home in his first campaign stop in Sioux City.
Thursday morning, first-term Iowa State Rep. J.D. Scholten, D-Sioux City, announced a bill aimed at ending TV blackouts for Major League Baseball broadcasting in the state.
SIOUX CITY -- Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg, who is polling in the top tier of candidates, will hold four town hall campaign events in Northwest Iowa next week.
SIOUX CITY -- Jackson Thompson has never felt like he's had to be out on the golf course. He doesn't feel forced or pressured to go out on the course and work on his game.
Let me get this straight. Gov. Reynolds turned down a humanitarian request for housing immigrant children in Iowa. Then she announces she is going to send Iowa state troopers to the border at the request of Texas Gov. Abbott. A…
DAKOTA CITY -- Whenever Viengxay Khuninh and his wife, Hou, received a certificate that recognized their quality of work or celebrated one of their milestone anniversaries at the Tyson Fresh Meats plant in Dakota City, the couple would frame and han…
"Football has kind of defined my life up until the last few months, where all I did, and all I was known for, was playing football," he said. "I just don't want football to be, 100 percent Cole Croston."
School has never ended for Pat Vanderloo, even after 47 years with the Sioux City Community School District, the majority of which have been spent at East.
SIOUX CITY -- Bill Weld, one of a few Republicans running with long odds against President Donald Trump, said Thursday he's a good alternative for the man who sought election interference from a foreign country and demeans many groups of…
The Biden administration plans to issue a new rule to protect the rights of farmers who raise cows, chickens and hogs against the country's largest meat processors.
1) Rep. Steve King stripped of House committees in January following national uproar over published comments related to white supremacy, white nationalism.
STORM LAKE, Iowa -- Tyson Foods announced Tuesday that 591 of the workers at its Storm Lake pork processing plant have tested positive for the novel coronavirus.
Northwestern College's Jalyn Gramstad, an explosive-dual threat quarterback, returns for his junior season this fall, looking to guide the Red Raiders to back-to-back NAIA titles for the first time in school history.
SIOUX CITY -- The East High School football team put up a strong fight Friday in the second half and that allowed the Black Raiders to force overtime. The game went three overtimes with the Black Raiders prevailing.