Sioux City, Woodbury County and several other NW Iowa counties are benefiting from todays allocation of funds from the Iowa Finance Authority.
The Board of Directors today announced the award of more than $11 million dollars in grants to 26 Local Housing Trust Funds to support local housing initiatives. The grant awards are expected to assist 2,390 families.
The Sioux City Housing Trust Fund will receive more than 275,000 dollars, the Western Iowa Community Improvement Regional Housing Trust Fund will receive more 380,000 dollars and the Northwest Iowa Regional Housing Trust Fund will receive more than 498,000 dollars.
The grant funds will be used for initiatives such as preserving aging housing stock, subsidizing local rental and down payment assistance programs, providing low-interest loans or grants to assist Iowans with home rehabilitation, financing construction of new single-family housing for low-income Iowans and supporting housing for persons with disabilities and homeless assistance programs.
Republican U.S. Senator Joni Ernst of Iowa has been named Legislator of the Year by the Wounded Warrior Project.
Ernst is a veteran of the Global War on Terrorism and a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee. She was awarded the distinguished honor for her successful efforts to spearhead bipartisan legislation to bring a Global War on Terrorism Memorial to the National Mall.
Three Trumpeter Swans will be removed from Little Sioux Park, near Correctionville, on Dec. 19 because of low water levels.
The swans are part of a reintroduction in Iowa and live at Little Sioux Park year-round.
Iowa Department of Natural Resources officials say the swans will be temporarily relocated to Nora Springs, Iowa.
The Sioux City Public Library has announced its Sioux City Reads book nominee Calling for a Blanket Dance by Oscar Hokeah is an honest, heartbreaking, and ultimately uplifting novel by an indigenous author. This novel is the story of a young Native American man discovering strength in his familial identity and finding his way home.
A local shelter has been opened for residents displaced by a fire at 19th and Pierce Streets.
There was a fire last night in Sioux City's Grandview Park neighborhood that rendered a 102-year-old apartment building uninhabitable and left 38 occupants seeking shelter in below-freezing weather.
