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Feenstra bill aims to support rural maternity care

U.S. Rep. Randy Feenstra is working on legislation he says will enable small rural hospitals to provide childbirth services while still keeping a form of extra Medicare support. The bill introduced by the Republican from Hull is intended to support those hospitals designated as critical access hospitals under Medicare, the federal health insurance program for seniors. With a critical access hospital designation, facilities get reimbursed by Medicare for the allowable cost of a treatment plus an additional percentage. Several area hospitals have the designation. They are Humboldt ...

Fort Dodge to Denver flights resume

Flights between Fort Dodge and Denver, Colorado, resumed today. The first United Express flight from Denver landed at Fort Dodge Regional Airport just before 10 a.m. Arriving passengers were showered with multi-colored strings by the Ambassadors of the Greater Fort Dodge Growth Alliance. The first departure from Fort Dodge to Denver International Airport is scheduled to take off at 6:37 p.m.

Fort Dodge prepares to honor the fallen

The Fort Dodge and Webster County commemoration of Memorial Day will be held on Monday at Terry Moehnke Veterans Memorial Park. It will begin at 10 a.m. with patriotic music played by the Karl King Municipal Band. The ceremony will begin at 10:30 a.m. The park is on the north side of ...

Supervisors approve speed limit change

The Webster County Board of Supervisors approved updating speed limits on 390th Street and Union Avenue in southern Webster County Tuesday. According to Webster County Engineer Jamie Johll, the speed limits will be lowered to 45 and 35 miles per hour. “This coincides with the paving project that we’re currently doing,” said Johll of the 1.6 miles of paving being done near Hidden Acres Christian Center. “There’s a lot of turning traffic here,” he added. “This project should be done on Thursday so we’ll be getting signs up and striping done. This was a good time ...

Junk Days on Demand returns

The city of Fort Dodge’s popular Junk Days on Demand program is back for the sixth year, and municipal crews are ready to help residents get rid of large, bulky items. “This program has been extremely successful,” said Public Works Director Brett Daniel. “We still have junk going into the landfills, but we’ve been able to help residents correctly dispose of many appliances and other items that might have been dumped incorrectly otherwise.” Daniel estimated that several hundred appliances have been picked up during the Junk Days on Demand program and have been successfully ...

Listening to his body saved his life

Silvester Davis, 62, of Fort Dodge, knows how easy it can be to brush off pain and keep pushing forward — but listening to his body saved his life. In June 2024, Davis began experiencing persistent pelvic pain, which led him to seek care. It initially felt like something minor, but a ...