The return of former Iowa Central Community College student and American Idol winner Maddie Poppe plus acts like Christian music powerhouse Selah fill the 2025-2026 season of the school’s first Center for Performing Arts Series. The series, which begins in July, also features a special ...

The next step towards a proposed $42.04 million referendum to address critical upgrades to the Fort Dodge Senior High School building was discussed at Tuesday’s meeting of the Fort Dodge Community School District Board of Education. Board Vice President Diane Pratt presented a petition ...

About 150 people gathered alongside Badger Lake Monday morning to honor heroes. The honored heroes were not the stars of the gridiron or baseball diamond. Nor were they the caped crusaders of comic books and movies. On Memorial Day, perhaps the most somber national holiday, the group ...

DAYTON — Leroy Jones spent a lot of time on the fender of a tractor just like the one that is now among his favorite restored tractors. The fender is round and narrow — and not at all where anyone is supposed to ride — but farm kids of the 1950s had no problem sitting up here for hours ...

WEBSTER CITY — What a reunion it was to have been. It had been years since this young couple had seen one another eye to eye. But now he was on the way home from halfway around the world. It would be a journey that ended almost before it began, when a transport plane carrying several ...

POMEROY — Remember when finding vintage tractors wasn’t as easy as a quick online search? In the 1990s and earlier, the hunt required persistence, connections and a sense of adventure. “It was called networking and usually involved road trips,” joked Steve Rosenboom, a vintage ...