The Estherville Veterans Day ceremony will be held at Veterans Memorial Park on Central Avenue in Estherville on Wednesday, Nov. 11 at 11 a.m. The featured speaker will be Pastor Dave Ullom of First Presbyterian Church and Pastor Cole McCormick of … more

Wednesday morning, Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate announced Iowa had “shattered” the previous voter turn-out record by nearly 100,000 votes. Pate cited the Secretary of State’s website where Iowans could track their absentee ballots and a … more

Emmet County followed the rest of Iowa in its national elections giving its support to Donald Trump for president and Joni Ernst in the U.S. Senate. In the Fourth District U.S. House race, Randy Feenstra-R defeated J.D. Scholten receiving nearly … more

The Estherville city council Monday night awarded a bid of $3,928,593 to Sand Construction of Humboldt. The firm has completed multiple pool projects, including Humboldt, Eagle Grove, Pocahontas and Algona in northern Iowa. Sand submitted in this … more

With just 19% of election results in, former Vice President Joe Biden leads President Donald Trump by a two to one margin - 61.3% to 37.2% as of 9:30 p.m. Experts have said the earliest results may not reflect the final count. Trump won Iowa's six … more

In-person, Election Day voting began at 7 a.m. and polls have just closed throughout Iowa, including in Emmet County. Results for national, state and local races will be coming in. If you were in line at 9 p.m., Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate … more

Iowa has one percent of the nation's population, but was host to the second most expensive U.S. Senate race this year and one of the most expensive in U.S. history. Donors large and small have voted with their dollars to ensure their party of … more

The Iowa Secretary of State's office reports today that Emmet County voters who requested mail-in ballots have returned them -- 97% have been received at the Emmet County Auditor's office for counting after polls close at 9 p.m. By affiliation, … more

Brady Olson, the Wallingford teen who launched a campaign for the 2016 presidential race under the moniker Deez Nuts, is now 20 years old and is serving as a 2020 poll worker in Iowa City during this election. The fictional campaign made a … more

Exit polls from around the country indicate voters in the U.S. rate the economy as their main concern, but they have varied responses regarding the best way to handle it. One-third of voters said the economy is their main, pressing issue in this … more