Woodbury County News

Many of us are gearing up for the biggest food day of the year, but for the Food Bank of Siouxland that means making sure hundreds of people don't go hungry this Thanksgiving.

Many of us are gearing up for the biggest food day of the year, but for the Food Bank of Siouxland that means making sure hundreds of people don't go hungry this Thanksgiving.

The Siouxland District Health Department has scheduled five more H1N1 clinics for Woodbury County residents to help vaccinate the five priority groups.

Governor Chet Culver says there are signs efforts to decrease Iowa's rates of youth detention, especially for minority youth, are showing signs of success.

Northwest Iowa lawmakers got quite an education on the dangers of drugs and alcohol, today.

It was recently reported that proposed Iowa funding cuts could eliminate juvenile and adult drug-court programs in Woodbury County.

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is scheduled to make her first appearance in Iowa since the 2008 presidential campaign with a stop in Sioux City Dec.

Sioux City will hold its first ever Adoption Saturday on Nov. 14, at 10 a.m. at the Woodbury County Courthouse.

It seems like a story right out of a tabloid magazine, a man so over weight he was trapped inside his home, and it's happened right here in Sioux City.

The Iowa Department of Public Health Friday reported three additional H1N1-related deaths in Iowa.

On Wednesday, the Iowa Department of Public Health reported four more Iowans have died of the H1N1 flu virus, including one from Monona County.

The H1N1 flu vaccine will now be available to a couple of high priority groups in Woodbury County.

Siouxland continues to see fewer doses of the H1N1 vaccine than expected. Siouxland District Health leaders told Sioux City councilmen they receive about three percent of all the vaccines that arrive in Iowa.

Plans to bring low income housing to the old Crittenton Center and Downtown YMCA may be altered with the sale of the YMCA.

Highway 12 in Plymouth County will close November 2nd so crews can repair a potential embankment slide.

Siouxland District Health held an H1N1 vaccine clinic at the Lawton-Bronson High School Wednesday.

They were piling into Chet's Foods to get a sneak peak of Moville's new store before it opens, and some are so excited, some have already made their grocery lists.

The Woodbury County Republican Party will be hosting a debate between several of the GOP candidates for Iowa Governor.

Last week, Iowa's governor issued a ten percent across the board cut in state spending.

You won't find many of these in rural areas. But a new roundabout in Winnebago, Nebraska is taking drivers in circles.