Stories from Wednesday, July 16, 2014

The few, the passionate. Monday night, Storm Lake hosted one of only two field hearings in the state on a newly-announced Environmental Protection Agency proposal to cut carbon emissions from power plants, thought to be a key cause of climate change...

For a Storm Lake family, a long-lost relative is coming home, and with him, a sense of closure over 60 years in the making. Gov. Terry Branstad has ordered flags to be flown at half-staff in Iowa next Monday in honor of U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Robert "Bobby" E. Howard, a cousin to Chuck Eddy of Storm Lake...

Time is running out for the former Fonda school building, and those who had hoped to see it turned into a community building. Five years after the doors to the school were closed, there is still no group organized with a plan or funding for a viable project, according to Newell-Fonda Superintendent Jeff Dicks...