Snowblowers may be fairly idle so far in 2025, but the area will be busier than ever for the 45th University of Okoboji Winter Games. Chair Andy Lux, co-chair Mickey Harrington, the Iowa Great Lakes ...

The Tipsy House at Arnolds Park Amusement Park has brought in guests since the early 1900s. — and many of those guests likely passed underneath the Legend-themed archway dozens of times to get there.

Okoboji’s girls basketball team – after reeling off three straight wins ahead of the holiday break — have yet to pick up a win in 2025, extending their losing streak to seven games with a lopsided ...

Spirit Lake’s sixth-ranked (3A) girls basketball team — after starting the season 10-0 — dropped a second straight contest, this time to fifth-ranked (2A) Rock Valley. The Rockets topped the Indians ...

For the second year in a row, Citizens Community Credit Union was named to Newsweek’s list of America’s Best Regional Banks and Credit Unions for 2025.

Supervisor Steve Dullard proposed a resolution setting a deadline for the county to receive information from FEMA by Feb. 10. The board voted unanimously against the resolution, but the supervisors ...

Harris-Lake Park’s girls basketball team — just two seasons removed from snapping a 51-game losing streak — pushed its season win total to 10 games for the first time since the 2015-16 season with a ...

The Spirit Lake Park girls wrestling team put three wrestlers in the finals, earning one first-place and two second-place finishes, and totaled 88 team points to place seventh at a tournament hosted ...

Midwest to Hy-Vee Market Grille locations with a new menu that primarily focuses on breakfast and burgers. Beginning Feb. 4, all Hy-Vee restaurants will offer a new breakfast menu. A new lunch and ...

The Okoboji/HMS girls wrestling team went 3-0 in a home quad held Thursday, Jan. 16 in Milford. The Pioneers earned a 36-30 win over Spirit Lake Park, a 60-18 win over Sibley-Ocheyedan, and a 42-36 ...

The Okoboji/HMS girls wrestling team placed fourth at the 2025 Siouxland Conference Girls Wrestling Tournament held Tuesday, Jan. 14 in Rock Rapids. The Pioneers put three wrestlers into the finals ...

To communicate findings so far, the Iowa Cancer Registry and University of Iowa College of Public Health is hosting the “Cancer in Iowa: 99 Counties Project” In collaboration with: ...