Webster County’s new emergency medical services coordinator is now on the job. Scott Richard is filling a new position created as a result of the March 2025 voter approval of a property tax to support emergency medical services. Richard was introduced during Wednesday’s meeting of the ...

A Rockwell City woman was killed and her husband was seriously injured in a fiery crash on a Missouri highway on Saturday. Two other women were also killed in the collision. Vicki Harper, 76, of Rockwell City, died, according to published reports and family acquaintances. Her husband, ...

ALGONA — Bishop Garrigan High School received a phone call at about 11:48 a.m. Wednesday from an unidentified male who said he planned to come to the school with a gun, according to a statement on the Algona city government web site. The school immediately began lockdown procedures at ...

When the 28th edition of the Brushy Creek Area Honor Flight takes off on May 26, a woman who hid her military service from her family will be one of the honored guests aboard. Vicki O’Tool will be aboard the plane with her husband, fellow Navy veteran Larry O’Tool. The couple from ...

There were a lot of people laying around in a grassy area at Fort Dodge Regional Airport Tuesday morning and they didn’t look good. One young woman appeared to be missing part of a leg. Others were covered in horrible-looking gashes, with blood everywhere. But those wounds were all ...

A gap between two buildings in the 700 block of Central Avenue would become a pocket park under a plan advanced by the City Council Monday. Right now, the space is a big patch of grass next to the building that once housed McGregor’s Furniture. Part of that space was once an alley that ...