The City of Sioux City today launched a traffic study along the West Fourth Street corridor and is asking residents to share their experiences.
The city wants input from residents who travel along West Fourth Street, from Hamilton Boulevard on the east side to War Eagle Park on the west side, ending at Fieldcrest Drive, in order to evaluate safety and efficiency.
The online survey and map can be found at rebrand.ly/West-4th-Street, will be open for input through May 21
The study team will review crash history and traffic data, along with the public feedback, t0 make a recommendation to the city for future improvements to this portion of West Fourth Street.
Late-season snowstorms led to above-average runoff into the Missouri River above Sioux City in April, according to Radio Iowa.
The US Army Corps of Engineers says the runoff forecast continues to improve, thanks to late-season plains and mountain snowfall in the upper basin. April's runoff helped boost storage totals in the river's reservoir system, but it is still below normal.
Plans to build a $574.5 million canal-and-reservoir system to draw water from the South Platte River got a vote of approval from Nebraska lawmakers Thursday, according to the Omaha World-Herald.
The bill authorizes transfers of money to and from the state’s cash reserve fund and other funds. It cleared first-round consideration on a 35-0 vote.
Under the transfer measure, Nebraska would set aside $574.5 million from the cash reserve fund to build the so-called Perkins County Canal, which would start in Colorado and bring water into southwest Nebraska.
Nearly $33 million in grant funding has recently been invested in rural broadband access in South Dakota, according to an announcement Thursday from the Governor's Office.
The $32.5 million is part of the ConnectSD broadband grants. The program from the Governor's Office of Economic Development will provide quality, high-speed internet to underserved households in Stanley County, parts of the southeast corner of the state and in the Black Hills, according to the press release.
Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids has named Kristie Fisher its new president, the sixth president in the school’s history.
Fisher has served as president of Iowa Valley Community College in Marshalltown since 2019.
Fisher graduated from Kirkwood and she will replace Lori Sundberg, who is retiring in the fall. Sundberg was named Kirkwood’s first woman president in the fall of 2018.
