One of the tastiest fundraisers this community has traditionally experienced is the annual cake auction conducted by the Domestic/Sexual Assault Outreach Center. Each year, bakers try to outdo each other with elaborate cakes that go on the auction block along with all kinds of other goodies. ...

It’s an all too common sight on Iowa roads: a driver with a phone pressed to their ear, chatting away while their vehicle weaves in and out of its lane. Such action could be the beginning of a crash and, in a worst case scenario, a tragedy. Just how bad is this kind of distracted driving ...

Sports have the ability to bring people together. It turns out that they also have the ability to bring organizations or institutions together. An example of that ability is developing now at Harlan and Hazel Rogers Sports Complex north of Fort Dodge. The sports complex, perhaps best known ...

As another growing season approaches, Tuesday has been set as National Ag Day by the Agriculture Council of America. The council designates the week it falls within as National Ag Week. One goal of National Ag Day is to recognize the contribution agriculture makes in the lives of all of us. ...

It would be hard to imagine 21st-century America without pets. They contribute wonderfully to the happiness and well-being of people of all ages. In a perfect world, every pet would at all times be a welcome and loved part of someone’s home. Unfortunately, reality falls short of that ...

There’s still snow on the ground and patches of ice scattered about, but the folks who fix our roads are starting their yearly efforts. In Fort Dodge, we have already seen the Public Works Department crews filling the potholes that erupted in city streets during the brutal winter weather. ...