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The Siouxland District Board of Health wants to approve a countywide cloth face mask recommendation to help reduce the spread of the coronavirus but stopped short of a mandate.

New state rules say Iowa school districts must conduct mostly in-person learning unless they meet certain virus-related benchmarks, including a county-wide coronavirus test positivity rate of 15 percent.

Sioux City will require people to wear face coverings or masks while inside City Hall and a number of other city buildings as well as on city transit starting Wednesday to help slow the spread of the coronavirus.

The four Native American-owned casinos in Iowa are temporarily smoke-free after reopening with precautions to prevent the spread of the coronavirus and one organization is asking them to make this change permanent.

About half of the county fairs around Iowa have been postponed to next summer because of the coronavirus. Others are still happening, but some have scaled back or canceled their grandstand shows and concerts. One county fair in western Iowa last week blended precautions with fun.

Charity Nebbe speaks with a Nora Boerner on her battle with COVID-19

MercyOne Siouxland Medical Center announced Thursday it will discontinue its obstetrics services.

Iowa fully reopened over the past 2.5 months, and Gov. Kim Reynolds has repeatedly said “data and metrics” were driving her reopening strategy. IPR looks back on how the data and metrics she said her decisions were based on have shifted over the course of the pandemic.

It’s a warm and humid summer night in late June in Correctionville. Girls and boys and playing softball and baseball in the small rural western Iowa town.…

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds said Tuesday local governments cannot implement mask requirements because they are not consistent with her public health disaster…