Fort Dodge’s Mariaha Benedict opened the season with a championship at the FDSH Early Bird tournament on Thursday. “We ...

Derrick Elman hasn’t stopped smiling since his Humboldt football team locked up a spot in the Class 3A state championship game here last Saturday night. And it’s not just because Elman and the ...

The annual Coats for Kids distribution of warm clothing will be held Saturday. It will be from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. at the Community Health Center of Fort Dodge, 126 N. 10th St. The distribution will be ...

One of two accused gunmen involved in a 2023 shooting at a Fort Dodge convenience store that injured two other men is now in the Webster County Jail. Keeshaun J. Crooks, 21, of 1419 Fifth Ave. N., had ...

The holidays will be in full swing at the Historic Phillips Auditorium on Dec. 15 as Shaun Johnson and the Big Band Experience headline a Fort Dodge Fine Arts Association holiday fundraiser ...

Photo courtesy of Iowa Central: Brooke Lensing of Iowa Central spikes the ball during the NJCAA national tournament in Cedar Rapids. CEDAR RAPIDS — The seventh-ranked Iowa Central volleyball team ...

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The Fort Dodge girls wrestling team will open their season on Thursday when they host the FDSH Early Bird tournament. The Dodgers will be joined by area schools Humboldt, Algona and Eagle Grove. Also ...

A couple years before World War I erupted, Walter J. Moeller established a business in Fort Dodge to work on coal furnaces ...

One month ago, Southeast Valley High School students hosted their first fall mum sale at the district’s new greenhouse. They ...

The salt sheds are filled. The sand piles are heaping, and the snow plows have been washed and prepped. Now, all that the ...

A new trial date has been set for a Gowrie man accused of killing a 17-year-old girl in September. Nathaniel K.