SPIRIT LAKE, Iowa (KTIV) - The Iowa Great Lakes community is remembering Leo “Butch” Parks, a longtime lakes-area businessman and founder of Parks Marina. He died Tuesday, Jan. 6, at the age of 81.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — The Okoboji Winter Games have just started, and first responders have already rescued multiple people from the ice. The first happened just before 6 p.m. Thursday. The ...

The body of a 71-year-old fisherman has been recovered from East Okoboji Lake in northeast Iowa. The Sioux City Journal reports that the body of Wayne Krogman, of Spirit Lake, was found just after 4 a ...

SPIRIT LAKE — Officials are warning residents about swimmer's itch after cases were reported on East Okoboji Lake in the Iowa Great Lakes Region. The state Department of Natural Resources said people ...

SPIRIT LAKE, Iowa -- Attorney General Tom Miller filed an environmental enforcement lawsuit Wednesday alleging water pollution control violations and other violations by Bridges Bay Resort, a new ...

“I remember doing this when I was a kid,” Linda Clarksean said with a laugh as she walked up the steep ramp to the 84-year-old Tipsy House holding the hands of her 5- and 6-year-old grandsons.