To get better on stage, it takes practice and work. The Fort Dodge Senior High School Large Group speech participants did exactly that and recently received honors for their work throughout the season. First, a district meet was held and then groups advanced to state, where selections ...

About 3,000 MidAmerican Energy customers in Webster County were without electricity for a couple hours Wednesday afternoon when a grass fire got too close to an electrical substation. The fire did not spread into the substation near U.S. Highway 169 and 190th Street, according to Geoff ...

People traveling around Fort Dodge Wednesday might have noticed some white streaks on the pavement that weren’t there before. Those white streaks were put there by Public Works Department crews to give them a little bit of an edge when dealing with today’s expected snow. The faint ...

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 ...

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 ...