It took more than a year to build and equip the new 32,000-square-foot home of FORCE America Inc. in Fort Dodge. Despite all of the time and work, Jeff Warner, the company’s chairman and chief executive officer, stood in front of the building on First Avenue South Thursday and declared ...

A jury trial is underway for a Fort Dodge man charged with 39 counts of child abuse against his own baby. Austin Prewitt, 25, was charged in September 2025 with dozens of counts of both felony and misdemeanor child endangerment causing bodily injury, assault causing injury, child ...

In Fort Dodge FORT DODGE — Local law enforcement officers will be raising money for Special Olympics from 6 a.m. to noon TODAY at Dunkin’, 2520 Fifth Ave. S. Every dollar raised helps provide opportunities, training, and competition for Special Olympics athletes throughout Iowa. Donors ...

Following in the footsteps of a famous military battalion of U.S. Dragoons that rode through Iowa in the summer of 1835, historian Kevin T. Mason recalls how he was able to retrace this expedition almost two centuries later by walking 371 miles on the Dragoon Trail. A University of ...