There appears to be a shiny steel aircraft taking off right next to the entrance to Fort Dodge Regional Airport. No, some hotshot pilot did not decide to use the airport’s parking lot and driveway as a runway. The big metal structure is the centerpiece for what will soon be a new entrance ...

Iowa is typically not a place people would consider to be a hotbed of solar energy production. That seems like a better description of sunny Arizona, not Iowa. But some experts who work in the solar energy field have calculated that the sunlight that shines down on our state can indeed be ...

Most people have a vague awareness that huge swaths of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil are either on fire or being clear-cut by farming and lumber industries. We also know that much of the scrubbing of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is accomplished by that same massive rainforest, a ...

Numbers tell an interesting and encouraging story about downtown Fort Dodge. Kris Patrick, the executive director of Main Street Fort Dodge, has lots of those numbers that show growth in several different ways that she can sum up in one sentence. ‘‘There’s really a resurgence of ...

A huge hog honors a fascinating piece of Fort Dodge history and is sure to help put Fort Dodge on the map in a positive way. We are referring, of course, to Floyd of Rosedale. Or to be more precise, the 14-foot tall, 3,000 pound steel sculpture of Floyd that now graces the intersection of ...

How fortuitous it is that today, while the attention of millions of Americans seems focused on controversy, we take time out to honor those about whom we are in complete agreement: veterans of military service. No matter how we view politics, we are united in revering the men and women who ...