Two or three cars are lined up at the Shell station fuel pumps. Tow trucks are lined up near the repair bays. As Sylvia Jennings takes care of one customer, the phone rings.

Spirit Lake baseball came into the 2025 season with a goal of winning their first Lakes Conference title since 2020, achieving this feat with a 9-0 five-inning win at Cherokee on Monday just before a storm washed over

Construction equipment is ready to move dirt at the intersection of A34 and 213th Avenue, but Okoboji School District leaders hope the public will be on hand for some ceremonial scoops of topsoil as well.

A national protest gained local traction as several hundred demonstrators gathered Saturday, June 14, for a “No Kings” rally at the Dickinson County Courthouse in Spirit Lake.  

Part of the Okoboji Summer Theatre experience is seeing how costumes help bring a production to life.

Magistrate Judge Tobias Cosgrove has set a 2 p.m. hearing Friday, June 27, for a Milford man accused of scaling ceiling tiles as part of a late-night Sibley convenience store caper.

Flood debris, strollers, lost checks, you name it — it's all been cleaned up by local volunteers.

Dickinson County Concerned Citizens (DC3) is asking the Dickinson County Court to block a 300-megawatt wind energy project they say will "destroy views" around the Iowa Great Lakes Region and "harm property values." <

West Okoboji’s official date of incorporation was Dec. 17, 1924, but centennial planners felt a celebration during the summer season was a better way to bring the city’s year-round and seasonal residents together.