In our latest "From the Archives": A confession to a Sioux City/Watertown, S.D. murder, the Class of 1898, a major track meet at Morningside, the Sioux City Art Center gets listed, "Lamb Ewe-niversity" marks 10 years.
Once an amusement park, twice a golf course, now the home of a multi-purpose arena.
A tornado swept through Hallam on May 22, 2004, leveling most homes and businesses. Volunteers in surrounding communities including Lincoln came together to help with the cleanup. Do you remember?
For more than a year, the Sioux City Parks and Recreation Department has been keeping an eye on the monument's condition. The obelisk last underwent repairs in 1998.
In our top stories for this past week we: Trek to the Orange City Tulip Festival, Watch the Morningside Days Parade go by, Share a story of a Guatemalan native learning a new language and graduating, Cover Siouxland track and field teams competing at state.
See photos of the May 2016 fire that destroyed Ideal Grocery. Do you remember the Lincoln grocery store?
Amy Macfarlane, a member of the Sioux City Historic Preservation Commission, talks about the history of the Rocklin Manufacturing building before presenting the company this the commission's Treasure of Sioux City award for historic preservation.
It was from his hotels that Eugene C. Eppley made the millions that benefited civic and community endeavors over 30 years.
Fred Astaire, who epitomized Hollywood elegance, dancing in a top hat and tails with Ginger Rogers and other stars, was born in Omaha 124 years ago today.
In the Journal's Top stories for the Week of April 30, 2023: Sewer rate hikes approved, local news coverage shrinking, judge rules on carbon capture pipeline, 56-year-old record broken, new developments in Laurel, Neb. and words of wisdom about friends.
Heavy rains in May 2015 flooded fields and roads in Lincoln and throughout southeast Nebraska. Our photographers and readers documented the day.
There's a lot of activity happening around the Siouxland Freedom Park right now.
"I think it's important that this lesson be taught," Former Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad, who attended the Sioux City Tolerance Week event, said. "We need to make sure nothing like this ever happens again."
A Kennedy speechwriter said the tour was the most successful day of the senator’s campaign — cut short by his assassination — because he began to believe he could win.
A coal mine near Cole Creek? Oil derricks looming over Happy Hollow Club’s golf course? Wouldn’t that have been something if either had happened during Omaha’s age of energy exploration?
The great racehorse and Triple Crown winner Omaha died at a stud farm in Nebraska City 64 years ago today.
Former Nebraska football player Brook Berringer, 22, died 27 years ago today in a plane crash near Raymond.
When asked about the importance of finding the lost Dakota County burial yard, Reinert was unequivocal. "I think it's obvious: It's the first and oldest cemetery in the county," he said. "It's important to save at least that history."
Ten years ago today, Jack Hoffman, a 7-year-old brain cancer patient from Atkinson, ran 69 yards to the end zone and scored during the Husker spring football game.
In the Sioux City Journal's latest "From the Archives" batch: Davidson Bros.’ Saturday store news concerning dress goods and silks is the most important ever sent out from an area store, two different kite days are planned and an all-state title run.
The blarney stone replica, a slab painted green and white and estimated to weigh 2,700 pounds, showed up at the Fahey’s Pub entrance the morning before St. Patrick’s Day 1975.
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See footage and pictures from the historic flooding that hit Nebraska in March 2019.
Nebraska ghost towns' stories often are unheard -- and remind us about the struggles of taming the wilderness that became the Good Life.
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Siouxland is always liable to get a big burst of winter snow. Here's a look at some especially bad ones from yesteryear.
In our top stories collection for the week of Feb. 12, we soar with some Yankton-area eagles, check in with NW Iowa legislators about their 1st month, cover postseason pushes from high school wrestlers, report on an invasive species and much more.
Dan Desdunes’ acclaim in Omaha was as a talented musician and band leader — a pioneer of jazz — whose local affiliations included Father Flanagan’s Boys Home.
Koch has also taken it upon himself to make sure scores of maps the county has in its possession are preserved in perpetuity. Some date all the way back to 1858, not long after the founding of Sioux City itself.
Ron Koch restores historical maps for Woodbury County. He also maintains the GIS (geographic information systems) used for property surveyors and 911 emergency services. At the end of the video, Ron shows us one of the oldest known maps of Sioux City.