A new partnership between the Fort Dodge Community School District and a local daycare provider will keep preschoolers safe and occupied before and after their classes. Parents will have the option of having their children stay at the Kandiland Daycare Center before and after their classes ...

Mother Nature wasn’t quite done with winter as she brought more than two inches of snow and high winds on Sunday, which created blizzard conditions. “Yesterday was a long day,” Webster County Engineer Jamie Johll said Monday. “We concentrated on paved routes yesterday and this ...

A couple of dogs that got loose in the middle of Sunday night’s blizzard made it home safely thanks to the help of a pair of Fort Dodge police officers. Lt. Joe Bates and Patrol Officer Bryan Slama helped Kari Swisher find her runaway dogs. “Without these two officers, I would have ...

The grim specter of homicide has touched the McCuddin family of Fort Dodge once again. On Oct. 2, 2004, Lisa McCuddin, 23, was shot to death in Fort Dodge. Now her son, who was 10 months old when she died, stands accused of stabbing his sister and nephew to death. Davontrez R. ...

Just days after the sun was shining and temperatures were in the 50s, Mother Nature wasn’t ready for spring yet. The blizzard warning was slated for 7 a.m. Sunday through 7 a.m. on Monday, waited a little bit longer, but it came with a bang. The snow hit Fort Dodge around 3 p.m. in a ...

A man wanted in connection with a January shooting in Fort Dodge has been charged with stabbing a woman and child to death Friday night in Ames, according to Ames police. Davontrez R. McCuddin, 22, of Fort Dodge, has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder, police in Ames ...