The Fort Dodge City Council on Monday approved an agreement that would allow the use of money from the new emergency medical services tax to be spent on buildings, personnel and vehicles. That agreement is expected to be considered by the Webster County Board of Supervisors today. In ...

As the 2025-26 school year moves into its latter stages, preparations for 2026-27 are moving along for the Fort Dodge Community School District Board. The group approved ratifying agreements Monday with the bus drivers bargaining unit, the education association, and administrative and ...

A second way to get vehicles in and out of Harlan and Hazel Rogers Sports Complex will be developed. A road connection behind the Mini Majors section of the park will eventually take traffic past the soccer fields to 160th Street. “The other positive impact of placing the outlet to the ...

A few Fort Dodge residents fed up with what they described as constant late night rowdiness and even gunfire around the Fourth Street Depot asked the City Council on Monday to take a hard look at the establishment. “We believe this meets the criteria of a public nuisance,” said Emily ...

A pair of robots will be taking over some of the routine maintenance of the driving range at Lakeside Municipal Golf Course soon. Golfers won’t be seeing any androids that look like they came out of a science fiction movie. But they may see a couple of machines working around the range ...

Editor's note: This feature first ran in a special Farm News publication called Barns of Iowa, published Nov. 28, 2025. KAMRAR — “I wish this old barn could talk,” said Wayne Blue of the barn on the home farm where he has lived most of his life. That old barn would indeed have some ...