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…
What were those silly twits thinking when they allowed fireworks to be sold in mid-June and expected people to save them until the third and fourth of July to set them off? These must be the same folks who believe in unicorns, Smurfs and fairies.
Read through the obituaries published today in Sioux City Journal.
Nine pets were rescued from the partially collapsed Davenport apartment building Tuesday afternoon.
Returning this year will be the Rib Fest Roadside, a drive-through rib sale that will be held from 8-11 a.m. on Saturday, June 10 at Battery Park. People can pre-order pork ribs for as low as $8 a slab at the Camp High Hopes website.
Davenport native Frank Fritz and lifelong friend and reality-show co-star Mike Wolfe have reunited after nearly three years without seeing one another.
Yankton Press & Dakotan. May 29, 2023.
As promised, the American Civil Liberties Union is suing to block the Nebraska Legislature’s most controversial measure combining an abortion ban with restrictions on gender-affirming care for minors, just days after it was signed into law.
Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is set to begin his first full day of presidential campaigning with a four-stop blitz through Iowa. DeSantis is trying to prioritize personally connecting with voters while proving he has the mettle to take on former President Donald Trump. He has appearances in Sioux City, Council Bluffs, Pella and Cedar Rapids on Wednesday. DeSantis is packing in early events in the state whose caucus kicks off GOP White House primary voting as part of a leadoff sprint that will eventually take him to 12 cities across Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina before Saturday.
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Sgt. Tom Gill and Sgt. Jess Aesoph demonstrate how a police body camera works at the Sioux City Police Department.
District Judge Zachary Hindman on Wednesday sentenced Katz to 180 days in jail for fourth-degree theft. He suspended a 15-year prison sentence for second-degree criminal mischief as a habitual offender.
A man arrested for transporting methamphetamine through Woodbury County was sentenced Thursday to 10 years in federal prison. Jose Angulo, 43, of Minneapolis, pleaded guilty in February to possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance.
Two days after Quanishia White-Berry was rescued from the wreckage of 324 Main St., her wife, Lexus, won’t leave her side at the hospital.
At least five people are unaccounted for and two are likely to be in the building that partially collapsed downtown Davenport over the weekend,
The apartment building at 324 Main St. is in "imminent danger of collapse" city officials said late Monday night.
Firefighters rescued Lisa Brooks out of a fourth-story window after more than a day since the Davenport apartment building partially collapsed.