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John Byrnes, Sioux City Parks and Recreation recreation supervisor, says the city’s new Cone Park Mountain Bike Park is unique across the Midwest. The park will host an opening kickoff celebration on Saturday.

Semehar Ghebrekidan describes her suspension from her role as the community inclusion liaison for the city of Sioux City, and responds to the allegations against her.

May 2021: Semehar Ghebrekidan talks about her job as Sioux City’s new community inclusion liaison. She works with the recently formed Inclusive Sioux City Advisory Committee.

Ysabella Gonzalez, a refugee from Venezuela, talks about her work helping resettle fellow refugees during an interview at the Mary Treglia Community House in Sioux City. Gonzalez, who has only been in America for eight months, heads up Mary Treglia’s refugee resettlement program and will represent Iowa at a national conference on immigration/refugee issues at the end of April in Washington, D.C.

Sioux City Mayor Bob Scott and Council Member Julie Schoenherr speak after being reelected and sworn in as mayor and councilwomen respectively.

Sioux City Mayor Bob Scott and Council Member Julie Schoenherr speak after being reelected and sworn in as mayor and councilwomen respectively.

The partially collapsed roof of the old Sioux City Auditorium, 625 Douglas St., is shown Thursday Jan. 25, 2024. The 1909 building is planned to be remodeled into the Lamb Regional Performing Arts Theatre but was red-tagged. There are now renewed concerns about the building’s structural integrity.

The Journal’s Jared McNett shows how to download and browse the Sioux City Journal’s app.

December 2023 - Joe Zehring, of Frontline Development, LLC, talks about Siouxland Splash, a waterpark planned at 3820 Highway 75 N in Sioux City.

Sioux City artist Paula Crandell talks about neurographic drawing. It is style of mindful art designed to be calming where the process of creating the drawing is more important than the art that is produced.

Semehar Ghebrekidan talks about her job as Sioux City’s new community inclusion liaison. She works with the recently formed Inclusive Sioux City Advisory Committee.

Nurses Abby Petersen, left, and Yudy Cruz show the culturally inclusive skin and hair care kits available to patients at UnityPoint Health - St. Luke’s in Sioux City.

Traffic moves past a speed camera kiosk located in the 3000 of Floyd Boulevard. Sioux City Police Department spokesman Sgt. Jeremy McClure says the number of accidents have been reduced since the speed camera, and another on Hamilton Boulevard, have been installed.

Sioux City wastewater treatment plant officials talk about he process it uses to purify and market the methane produced in the plant’s digesters. The city expects to start generating $1.5 marketing methane that was previously burned off in a flare.

Jerome Howard, chief flight instructor of Revv Aviation, talks about the demand for aviation jobs. Revv’s Sioux City flight school recently received FFA authority as a Part 141 instruction school. It was previously only certified as a Part 61 flight school.

Sgt. Tom Gill and Sgt. Jess Aesoph demonstrate how a police body camera works at the Sioux City Police Department.

Scenes of companies setting up their booths for the Siouxland Home Show which starts Friday at the Seaboard Triumph Expo Center in Sioux City. The annual home show runs through Sunday and is held by the Home Builders Association of Greater Siouxland.

Sioux City Mayor Bob Scott and Council Member Julie Schoenherr speak after being reelected and sworn in as mayor and councilwomen respectively.

Nick Palmiotti, General Manager of the Tyson Events Center, says patrons should notice a big improvement in quality as a result of a new house sound system in the Sioux City arena.

Reddit shares opened at 38% above the $34 IPO price when it began trading on the NYSE. Reddit’s IPO, the fourth largest this year, is a high-profile addition to 2024’s roster of newly and soon-to-be public companies. Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow is tracking the trade.