Report: Just 38% of Iowa’s rural hospitals offer labor and delivery services

A report finds only about one third of rural Iowa hospitals now deliver babies, with three hospitals closing their maternity wards in recent years, and two more considered at risk. Harold Miller, president and CEO of the nonprofit Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform, says rural hospitals often lose money running expensive OB units […]

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Roger L. Young, 82, Hartley

Roger L. Young, Age 82, of Hartley, Iowa, passed away on Thursday, September 24, 2026, at the Community Memorial Health Center

Wolverines Blank Tornadoes

Sioux City-West quarterback Tavin Irvine ran for a pair of touchdowns and passed for another and the visiting Wolverines defeated Storm

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