The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers increased releases this week from Gavin’s Point Dam. The Corps is trying to release water before snowpack to the north starts melting.
Flood damage in Iowa and Nebraska this spring totaled about three-billion dollars.
The Siouxland Salvation Army opened a Disaster Resource Center at their main location near West 14thand Villa Avenue.
The center will help people impacted come and pick up flood-relief items like water, cleaning supplies, food and financial assistance.
Lawmakers on a Senate panel at the Iowa Statehouse advanced a bill allowing stronger medical marijuana products. The proposal removes the 3 percent limit on THC—the chemical that gets people high—and replaces it with a 25 gram limit over 90 days.
Groups representing law enforcement officers and addiction treatment providers worry this would allow people to consume too much THC. Sioux City Police tells Siouxland Public Media News they’re concerned about the state easing restrictions on medical marijuana.
The loss of a second major health care insurer in the Iowa Medicaid program raised serious concern about the stability of the program that serves about 600,000 poor and disabled people.
UnitedHealthcare announced Friday it would leave Iowa's $5 billion program in the coming months
It is the second health care insurance provider to leave the Iowa program over money since it was handed over to private companies by former Gov. Terry Branstad in 2016.