Editor's note: This editorial is also being published today in The Journal and other Iowa newspapers owned by Lee Enterprises, including the Waterloo Courier and the Mason City Globe-Gazette.
Veterans Day is very special – for those who served our country and for those of us they served.
Governors from Iowa, Nebraska and South Dakota all recently announced plans to send state patrol troopers or National Guard members to the U.S.-Mexico border to shore up law enforcement efforts.
It would have been great to swim on Memorial Day. Unfortunately, Sioux City’s public pools were closed.
Freedom of the press stands alongside freedom of religion, speech, assembly and petition as the rights guaranteed by the 1st Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
COVID-19 didn't create the chasm between society's haves and have-nots, but it did expose it while also revealing the fault lines that threaten to further widen this divide.
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COVID-19 didn't create the chasm between society's haves and have-nots, but it did expose it while also revealing the fault lines that threaten to further widen this divide.
Nebraska’s reputation for warm welcomes and hospitality is known nationally, but it’s taken an increasingly international flavor over the years.
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I enjoyed the editorial by Cal Thomas on climate change in the July 3 edition. It reminded me of the prediction of climate change Guru Al Gore that coastal cities would be flooded by now because of melting ice.
There are over 7.6 billion people in the world now. That is an increase of 1.6 billion in just 18 years. It took all of human history to reach 1.6 billion people by 1900 and we added as many in the last 18 years! Population in the U.S. alone has more than doubled since 1950.
Those who enter the country illegally and those who employ them disrespect the law. They show disregard for those who are following the law. We can’t allow people to pour into the U.S. undetected, unchecked, undocumented and circumventing the line of people who are waiting to lawfully become…
Firefighters work to put out a fire at Sioux Laundry, 510 Centennial Dr., in North Sioux City City, South Dakota. Tuesday morning, May 17, 2022. Fire was reported at the commercial laundry building in the early morning hours.
Firefighters work to put out a fire at Sioux Laundry, 510 Centennial Dr., in North Sioux City City, South Dakota. Tuesday morning, May 17, 2022. Fire was reported at the commercial laundry building in the early morning hours.
Friends of bride and groom Grace Markovich and Jack Dunn have organized a fundraiser for Younes Dayekh. He was severely injured in a crash in Davenport on Friday, where he was visiting to serve as an usher in the wedding.
The Sioux City Musketeers play the Madison Capitols in USHL Clark Cup championship hockey action played Monday, May 16, 2022, at the Tyson Events Center in Sioux City.
A man has sued former Dodge County Attorney Oliver Glass, the county, the City of Fremont and others over his confinement in a mental-health unit following badgering phone calls and texts from Glass.
The University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art has arranged an audience with the Oba of Benin this fall in hopes of repatriating two pieces "to their rightful owners as swiftly as possible."
The ban, which had been instituted in March because of bird flu and extended in April, has now expired.
Nebraskans for Medical Marijuana and the ACLU of Nebraska said requiring petitions to obtain the signature of 5% of voters in 38 of the state’s 93 counties diluted the votes of residents in the more densely populated urban areas.
NORTH SIOUX CITY -- Emergency crews battled an early morning blaze at a North Sioux City business on Tuesday.
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Per a release from the Iowa Department of Corrections: The Walthill, Neb. resident was admitted to the Sioux City Residential Treatment Facility on Feb. 11, 2022 and failed to report on Friday.
"When officers arrived on scene they did not locate any victims or involved persons but did locate evidence of a shooting."
Nebraskans for Medical Marijuana and the ACLU of Nebraska said requiring petitions to obtain the signature of 5% of voters in 38 of the state’s 93 counties diluted the votes of residents in the more densely populated urban areas.
Hundreds of newly released court exhibits pull back the curtain on how the Rams left St. Louis.
SIOUX CITY -- A nonprofit group is no longer considering the former Sioux City YMCA as a potential site for a faith-based restoration ministry for individuals struggling with addiction.
SIOUX CITY -- Sioux City Police Chief Rex Mueller told Sioux City councilmembers that two mobile speed kiosks will be operational in Sioux City beginning Tuesday.