Milford News

All precautions are useless, any resistance is futile - you're going to be totally seduced by the Des Moines Metro Opera's charming production of "The Barber of Seville." Gioacchino Rossini's universally famous comic opera, playing through July 12 at the Blank Performing Arts Center in Indianola, is being offered for only the fourth time in the ...

Sioux City's attempt to encourage folks to spend time and money in the city may have paid off.

Tired of busting your budget to entertain yourself in the Lakes area? Maybe you're crunching cash this Saturday after taking the family out for a movie - complete with popcorn, sodas and Junior Mints.

Sioux City's attempt to encourage folks to spend time and money in the city may have paid off.

Sioux City's attempt to encourage folks to spend time and money in the city may have paid off.

Sioux City's attempt to encourage folks to spend time and money in the city may have paid off.

Sioux City's attempt to encourage folks to spend time and money in the city may have paid off.

A 19-year-old Sioux City man, charged in the death of his four-month-old daughter in February has bonded out of jail.

A Dickinson County judge has ordered a Milford preschool closed after two incidents in which children's safety was at risk.

Sioux City officers tried to pull 18-year-old Pablo Elias-Lopez over near Glenn avenue on Highway 75 aorund 2am Tuesday morning.

A 5-year-old girl was nearly hanged while playing with a jumprope outside of the Apple Tree Academy in Milford, IA.

Financial backers of the Lewis and Clark Regional Water System got a chance to see their dollars at work Friday More>> Milford, IA daycare visited by DHS before MILFORD, Iowa -- A Northwest Iowa daycare under investigation after a 5-year-old girl was found with a jump rope wrapped around her neck.

A 5-year-old girl was nearly hanged while playing with a jumprope outside of the Apple Tree Academy in Milford, IA.

A 5-year-old girl almost hanged herself with a jump-rope going down a slide at her preschool in Milford in northwest Iowa, authorities said.

A 5-year-old girl was nearly hanged while playing with a jumprope outside of the Apple Tree Academy in Milford, IA.

A 5-year-old girl was nearly hanged while playing with a jumprope outside of the Apple Tree Academy in Milford, IA.

Many people believe the road, not the Lower Gar weir, controls the lake levels, and are therefore concerned that any of options presented in the 1999 USACE report would lower lake levels, such that in a normal year water levels would lower faster and by June fall as low as they normally are in August.

This is my first attempt in writing a blog so forgive my errors. I have been writing articles since 1952 mainly about the Iowa Great Lakes.

Ha! I had just notified the DCN staff last week that I was afraid I am too busy during the summer to find time to water blog, but here I am.

It's a summer to visit your Iowa neighbors. The economy hasn't recovered yet, and although a few will note positive signs, a frugal mindset lingers among travelers.