Ambulance units from Farnhamville and Stratford would receive some of the money from Webster County’s emergency medical tax under proposed agreements headed to the Board of Supervisors. The volunteer fire departments in those two communities have provided ambulance service to relatively ...

There will be a two hour late start Friday at St. Edmond Catholic School in Fort Dodge due to winter weather conditions. Doors and SEAS will open at 9:30AM.

FARNHAMVILLE — For generations, a flag has waved over Reading Township Cemetery as a quiet guardian for all of the veterans interred on the grounds. But the base of that flagpole has been crumbling for years due to time and weather. Mike Ewing, commander for American Legion Post 510, ...

Lauren Jones listened and absorbed her surroundings when she was a youngster, and that helped form her love for music. “I became involved in band when I was in middle school,” said the Fort Dodge Senior High senior. “I was mostly inspired by my dad, because he played his drums around ...

AMES — The following area students were named to the Dean’s List at Iowa State University in Ames for the fall semester. Algona Ava R. Bartolo, Violet K. Bode, Kaitlyn Burns, Ashley R. Cantu, Jackson A. Cecil, Audi R. Crooks, Ava Eisenbarth, Sam Greteman, Brooklyn P. Helmers, Ava Hough, ...

There is always a need for donated blood in northern Iowa, according to those who run blood banks. A fatal bus crash in Calhoun County involving the Iowa Lakes Community College baseball team last week combined with a couple of incidents in Iowa and South Dakota have made the need more ...