Big machines are rumbling across a long section of once vacant ground along Third Avenue Northwest as workers begin the process of building the Fort Dodge community’s newest apartments. The construction site consists of about three acres along the south side of the road between Fifth ...

A relatively new academic approach that involves educators utilizing hypnosis to enhance artistic creativity in the classroom has come to Fort Dodge. Kim Bromley, a recently retired professor of visual arts at North Dakota State University, facilitated a two-hour workshop on ...

With mesh bags in hand, their heads mostly looking down, and a keen desire to find the motherload of morels, a secretive band of hunters is about to hit the woods in central Iowa. Will this be the year when the sometimes elusive morel mushrooms are abundant for those willing to trek into ...

Heavy rains regularly meant trouble in Fort Dodge a decade or so ago. Many residents would have sewage backing up into their basements. Public works crews used to set up trailer-mounted pumps to pump sewage out of manholes. The staff of McClure Engineering Co. documented all these problems in ...