While the snow from last week’s blizzard melts, Webster County Emergency Management Director Dylan Hagen is reminding residents to begin thinking about weather preparedness during Severe Weather Awareness Week, which begins today. “We have seen that Iowa weather can change in the blink of ...

The Fort Dodge City Council will consider buying land for a second firehouse when it meets tonight. The council will meet at 6 p.m. in the Municipal Building, 819 First Ave. S. In the runup to the March 2025 referendum in which Webster County voters approved a new property tax to support ...

A new restaurant by the riverfront and improved buildings throughout downtown Fort Dodge may become a reality with the help of a financial boost approved Friday by state officials. The Iowa Economic Development Authority Board OK’d the extension of a reinvestment district that will provide ...

LAKE CITY — The first Calhoun County Women’s Summit, with the theme SHE Grows Here, will be from 5 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Lake City Community Memorial Building. It is sponsored by Calhoun County Economic Development in partnership with Mid Iowa Insurance. The event will ...

Regional author and illustrator Bruce Arant brought Farmer Simpson and his sheep alive for local children recently. As part of the Fort Dodge Community School District’s Visiting Author program funded by the Fort Dodge Senior High Alumni Association, Arant presented his books and ...

GOWRIE — For some students at Southeast Valley High School, Thursday’s drive to class came with a clutch, a cab, and a family legacy, as Central Plains FFA members arrived to school in nearly two dozen tractors. The annual Drive Your Tractor To School event was organized by the ...