The always popular and entertaining Badger Lake Dragon Boat Bash is this week. This is the 30th year the dragon boat races have been held here in Fort Dodge. Badger Lake at John F. Kennedy Memorial Park is the setting for the competition. There will be a concert Friday evening, with ...

Pride in Community Appearance, often better known as PICA, has received the Main Street Iowa Leadership Award. That is a statewide honor celebrating exceptional volunteerism, leadership, and community impact. PICA was founded in 2001 by Jan and Phyllis Wilson, of Fort Dodge. Its members ...

The Fort Dodge City Council on Monday extended the contract of City Manager David Fierke for another four years. Fierke has been the city manager since 2006. David Haggard, the former superintendent of the Fort Dodge Community School District, served as interim city manager for a few ...

The Fort Dodge City Council took a couple of steps Monday to support the construction of a new downtown building that would take the place of the vacant Trolley Center. H & F Development Partners, of Fort Dodge, has proposed demolishing the Trolley Center at the corner of Ninth Street ...

Seeing that the federal government has racked up a $40 trillion debt with no end in sight, Congressional candidate Chris McGowan believes a constitutional amendment requiring a balanced budget is the only answer. “I think that elected officials need to make that a front burner issue,” ...

An architect was hired Monday to design the second firehouse in Fort Dodge. The City Council hired 10Fold Architecture + Engineering, of Ames, to design the structure planned for the 300 block of A Street. The company will be paid $321,000. Money to pay for that contract will come from the ...