The 2023 Lucia Festival of Light at Stratford Lutheran Church is supposed to be all about crowning a new Lucia for the year. This year, the Lucia Maidens, Gracelynn Zenk, 5, of Stratford, and Alli Milleson, 4, of Boone, pretty much stole the show. The pair were tasked with carrying in ...

Cutting-edge technology, new ideas, and a chance to talk about all things farmers talk about when they gather — from the markets to the weather — put a sheen on the final day of the CJ Bio America Farm News Ag Show at the Webster County Fairgrounds Saturday. Farmers turned out to ...

The Fort Dodge City Council will begin its work on the proposed 2023-2024 budget when it meets this evening. The spending plan that is being developed is for the fiscal year that begins July 1, 2024. However, state law requires cities to have their budgets done by mid-March. To meet that ...

The CJ Bio America presents 2023 Farm News Ag Show opened at the Webster County Fairgrounds Friday with a first-time ever appearance at the show by the state’s senior U.S. Senator, Charles Grassley. Grassley sat down for a wide-ranging live interview with Messenger Editor Bill Shea, ...

When the powerful synthetic opioid drug fentanyl started becoming more and more prevalent as a street drug on its own in pill form and mixed with other illegal narcotics in recent years, law enforcement struggled to safely test for the substance when out in the field. The drug is ...