The Okoboji Foundation announced the start of its 2025 grant season on Jan. 7. The foundations mission is to offer funding for impactful capital projects that enhance life in the Lakes Area.

A pair of Thursday nigh rescues served as a reminder that no ice is guaranteed safe for travel ahead of the University of Okoboji Winter Games. Arnolds Park/Okoboji Fire and Rescue received the first ...

State Sen. Mike Bousselot’s plan to shift Iowa’s northern border — by adding nine southern Minnesota counties — drew attention in the first week of the 2025 legislative session. The area’s ...

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.

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.

The Iowa Lakes Corridor Development Corporation will welcome four new board members for 2025, including Spirit Lake City Council member Brett Johnson. Johnson was first elected to the Spirit Lake City ...

An online dating company pitched us with their “Best 20 Mountain Towns in America” content and — to our disbelief — none of Iowa’s mountains made the list.

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: ...

What a strange winter this has been. I think this becomes the standard comment about our weather as we go through each season. Think back to the incredible flooding last June, and then the ensuing dry ...

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 ...

Okoboji’s girls basketball team suffered a nonconference road loss to Sioux Central on Tuesday, Jan. 14. The Rebels routed the Pioneers 75-41 in Sioux Rapids. “I thought our girls competed against a ...