For someone seeing it for the first time, downtown Fort Dodge can make a big impression. Marcela Uribe came to the city from Texas Thursday to check out the Main Street Fort Dodge program and used the word big to describe her first impression. “For the size of the community, the downtown ...
In Fort Dodge FORT DODGE — Matt Cosgrove River's Edge Discovery Center will be open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. TODAY and 9 a.m. to noon SATURDAY at 20 N. First St. Free admission. FORT DODGE — The Fort Dodge Veterans Council will hold a Beers and Ears benefit from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. SATURDAY ...
Local fire departments are paying big bucks - sometimes as much as $1 million - for new trucks and waiting longer and longer to get them. The most recent example can be found in Fort Dodge, where the Fire Department recently placed in service a bucket truck called a tower ladder that can lift ...
The clouds cleared off Saturday morning to allow a successful bike ride that raised money for trail improvements in honor of an avid local cyclist. “What I saw was a bunch of people having a good time, reminiscing and creating memories,” said Jeff Halter, an organizer of the Prairie ...
STUART — An Iowa State Patrol trooper was shot and wounded Tuesday afternoon after confronting a shotgun-toting man who is charged with killing a woman. Trooper Chase Carruthers was taken to a Des Moines hospital and remains a patient there. The deceased was identified by the Iowa Department of Public Safety as 42-year-old Toni Elena-Ann Salazar, of Stuart. Austin N. Reed, 46, of Stuart, was arrested and charged with first degree murder and attempted muder of a police officer. The incident happened at about 3:35 p.m. Tuesday in the 200 block of Southwest Sixth Street. An ...
A longtime Webster County 4-H leader will be inducted into the 2026 Iowa 4-H Hall of Fame on Sunday afternoon at the Iowa State Fair. Debra Shelton will be honored for 23 years of leading the C/C Sidekicks 4-H Club in a program her family has been part of for three generations. “For the ...
