When Fort Dodge residents refer to homeless people, they often envision single men living on the street or in a shelter with a substance abuse problem or mental illness. However, local experts note that such views are based on stereotypical overgeneralizations of homeless people. Randy ...

Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird said Thursday that her office has about $9 million from an opioid settlement to be distributed to communities in the form of grants. “I want to make sure every part of Iowa gets its share of that money,” she said. The new opioid grant program was one of ...

The Fort Dodge Senior High Racing Club will host its Spring Car Show from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. May 9 at the high school, 825 N. 25th St. The event is open to the public and welcomes all types of vehicles, from classic muscle cars to modern performance builds, race cars, trucks, imports, bikes ...

For a few decades of his life, Fort Dodge native John Roby was focused on fighting. He began boxing when he was 16 years old and trained under the late Bud Fair, of Fort Dodge. After a long and distinguished amateur career, he turned pro. He fought 48 professional bouts and was the ...

Fort Dodge was still an active Army post when it and all the land around it became part of an official Iowa county. But it wasn’t named Webster County. And the process of eventually getting the county seat moved to the town of Fort Dodge after the Army left got a little bit nasty. The ...

Editor’s note: The first few weeks of our America 250 series has focused heavily on the early career of George Washington, the nation’s first president and, prior to the American revolution, an officer in the British Army. We touched briefly two week ago on Washington’s campaign through ...