Buena Vista County News

Authorities say two children playing with fireworks started a fire that destroyed a home in Albert City in northwest Iowa last weekend.

Gasoline prices in Iowa are continuing to climb, up 40 cents a gallon in the past month.

Authorities say a northwest Iowa man was electrocuted while trying to fix a microwave oven.

This morning a judge decided to hold the witnesses, to help with the prosecution against De Jesus Melisio Camacho, who is accused of murdering a 3-year-old South Sioux City girl last month.

James Patrick Griffin, 45, St. Laurens, was charged with no insurance and improper registration on Thursday, May 28, in the 3900 block of N18 during a routine traffic stop by Clay County deputies.

Tyler Bussell and Greg Besawworked as one of the canoe teams retrieving garbage and other waste items from the water and shoreline as part of the first annual Little Sioux River Cleanup.

Swine Flu - What you need to know A Siouxland farm family must decide whether to accept an offer for their land or face the possibility of having it taken away.

Swine Flu - What you need to know Buena Vista County was asked to pass a resolution against gay marriage.

Swine Flu - What you need to know Buena Vista County was asked to pass a resolution against gay marriage.

Across farm country farmers are chomping at the bit to get planters in the field, according to reports from AgWeb's Crop Comments.

A Lakeside man has been sentenced to more than five years in prison after he pleaded guilty to trying to trade guns for drugs.

A lot of college students graduate soon, and start searching for their first job.

Iowa's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate increased slightly in February but remains far beneath the national rate.

More than a dozen of Iowa's 99 counties don't offer Web site, and there are glaring inconsistencies in content among those counties that maintain sites.

A state lawmaker who ditched his own proposal to force school mergers among most Iowa districts says he still wants to shrink the roster of superintendents to one per county.

Travis Anderson may be counting his blessings, after he escaped without injury from an accident involving the semi-truck that he was driving and a Chicago Central and Pacific train.

Wildlife photographer Hugh Perry's photo titled "Nashville Warbler" is an example of the style of outdoor photography that he taught on Feb.

Two BVU students were arrested on Monday, Feb. 2 following suspicion of drug activity in the residence hall.

The Iowa Supreme Court denied Sessions Harper's request for an appeal on Friday, upholding his conviction for the January 2006 murder of Holly Michael.

Do you have a law, if no one will enforce it? Since the Iowa smoking ban went into place, violations have been reported at 460 places, and guess how many people got tickets for it? Zip.