Springtime will soon be making an appearance across the state of Iowa. The green is a welcome sight as trees bud out across the rural landscape. The tree line isn’t as green as it once was, however. Over the last few years, ash trees have died back significantly. This is a direct result ...

By ERIC PRATT sports@messengernews.net A night of fun, fellowship and fundraising is on tap for the Webster County Chapter of Pheasants Forever this Saturday. The group’s 41st annual banquet takes place at the Webster County Ag Center on the Webster County Fairgrounds. Banquet Chairman ...

A new partnership between the Fort Dodge Community School District and a local daycare provider will keep preschoolers safe and occupied before and after their classes. Parents will have the option of having their children stay at the Kandiland Daycare Center before and after their classes ...

Mother Nature wasn’t quite done with winter as she brought more than two inches of snow and high winds on Sunday, which created blizzard conditions. “Yesterday was a long day,” Webster County Engineer Jamie Johll said Monday. “We concentrated on paved routes yesterday and this ...

A couple of dogs that got loose in the middle of Sunday night’s blizzard made it home safely thanks to the help of a pair of Fort Dodge police officers. Lt. Joe Bates and Patrol Officer Bryan Slama helped Kari Swisher find her runaway dogs. “Without these two officers, I would have ...

The grim specter of homicide has touched the McCuddin family of Fort Dodge once again. On Oct. 2, 2004, Lisa McCuddin, 23, was shot to death in Fort Dodge. Now her son, who was 10 months old when she died, stands accused of stabbing his sister and nephew to death. Davontrez R. ...