Editor’s note: This story first appeared in November 2025. GOWRIE — Kenneth Fields enlisted in the Navy seeking some good technical training and some adventure. The Gowrie man got both of those things in a 10-year Navy career in which he sailed in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and the ...
Today is the final day to vote in the 2026 general election. All polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday. A list of polling places and a map showing their locations is on page A2 of today’s edition of The Messenger. Voters in and around Webster County will be picking a U.S. ...
DES MOINES — Iowa voters chose Democrat Rob Sand to be their next governor, flipping the seat Republicans have held for more than two decades and likely ushering in a new era of divided state government. Sand defeated Zach Lahn, a first-time candidate who surprised even members of his own ...
A proposal to open nearly 64 acres near Marker 126 to industrial development will return to the Webster County Board of Supervisors today for a final public hearing and a decision on whether the rezoning should proceed. The meeting begins at 10 a.m. at the Webster County Courthouse. It will include the third and final public hearing on Kevin Stumpf’s request to rezone two vacant parcels totaling approximately 63.9 acres from Agricultural Preservation District to Industrial District. The land lies north of U.S. Highway 20 on both sides of Poplar Avenue, near the Marker 126 travel ...
DES MOINES — Josh Turek won Iowa's rare open U.S. Senate race in Tuesday's midterm elections, flipping a Republican-held seat and becoming the first Democrat since Barack Obama to win a federal race in the state. Turek defeated Republican Ashley Hinson to succeed retiring two-term ...
Zach Lahn, the Republican nominee for governor, told a Fort Dodge audience Monday afternoon that his campaign is all about the culture of Iowa. He spoke to about 60 people at Olde Boston’s Restaurant & Pub, working to motivate Republican voters in the final hours of the general election ...
