For the first time in its history, the Iowa Girls State Softball Tournament will be played using a double-elimination format, a change expected to keep teams in Fort Dodge longer and generate as much as $2 million in direct visitor spending. The tournament begins today at Harlan and Hazel ...
It’s been a hot humid week at the Webster County Fair. On Saturday, that heat got turned up to something closer to molten lava for the participants in the buffalo wing challenge wing eating contest. Contestants had to eat five Buffalo Wild Wings “Blazin’ Knockout” wings. The ...
The Webster County Fair crowned a king and a queen on Wednesday, and the job isn’t standing still and smiling for a photo. For Lane Ahlers and Aianna Kirby, it’s showing up all week, even in the sweltering heat, for their own entries, and for everyone else’s. Fair royalty carry a ...
Three new troopers are on the roads in and around Webster County, carrying on the Iowa State Patrol’s tradition of professionalism and service. Trooper Matt Winter and Trooper Payton Harris joined the patrol’s Webster County based District 7 in December. Trooper Dylan Hill arrived ...
