TWIN LAKES — Great golf courses not only offer a variety of hole designs and natural features, but unique personalities. Twin Lakes Golf Club (TLGC) provides plenty of panache, thanks to a vintage, concrete gorilla and elk that have found a new home at the nine-hole course. “I’ve ...

Those who knew Bonnie Barnett recall the late Fort Dodge woman as very hard working. She worked at the Best Western Starlite Village Inn & Suites, the Great Western Dining Service at Iowa Central Community College and Hy-Vee. And if that wasn’t enough, she cleaned houses. In her will, ...

An individual has apparently been selected to fill a vacancy on the Fort Dodge Community School District Board of Education. Dr. Zach Mason, a Fort Dodge chiropractor, said Monday evening that he had been selected by the board to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Stu Cochrane. He ...

The Greater Fort Dodge Growth Alliance is partnering with Iowa Workforce Development (IWD) and Iowa Economic Development Authority to complete a laborshed employment study for the Fort Dodge area. This study will geographically define which communities contribute to Fort Dodge’s workforce, ...

ROCKWELL CITY — Among the events guests could enjoy Saturday during an open house for the newly completed Calhoun County Conservation Nature Center was getting to watch a fox snake named Loki enjoy a little mid-morning “snake snack.” What might this little “snake snack” ...

WEBSTER CITY — For a small state — Iowa ranks 23rd in land area — it’s home to lots of things claiming to be the “world’s largest.” Many readers have visited the world’s largest truck stop in Walcott, or the world’s largest man-made grotto in West Bend. Strawberry Point ...