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The Director of the Iowa Flood Center says Spencer is now on the map as a priority for flood control.

The Spencer Chamber was honored with a Resilience award for efforts following the flood.

The City of Estherville is implementing new speed limits on Iowa State Highway 4.

The annual Second Story tour in downtown Spencer is this weekend

The city of Spencer has hired former Clive Fire Chief Rick Rowe to critique their handling of the flood and to write a plan on how to handle future disasters.

It’s a once in a lifetime event, that special day when the date lines up with your city zip code. Mail something to Holstein, Iowa and you’ll use 51025. It’s also Nickle Dime Quarter Day. And this Saturday is May 10th, 2025, so Holstein is celebrating.

he big news from the season opener on the Great Lakes is that a tagged walleye was caught for the first time since 2017.

An O’Brien County Deputy attempted to pull over a speeding vehicle at 7:10 a.m. on April 29th on Redwing Avenue, southwest of Sanborn, but the pickup did not stop.

The Storm Lake Fire Department responded to a house fire at 237 Elm Street in Lakeside at 5:42 a.m. on the morning of May 6th.

“Transforming the residential experience” is the mission for Buena Vista University in Storm Lake, and new apartment-style dorms on campus should add to the premier on-campus living experience. An open house on Friday, May 2 was the first look at the completed dorms, and hundreds from BVU and the Storm Lake community showed up to get a tour.