A total of 37 men have served as mayor of Fort Dodge since William Williams was the first person elected to the post in 1869. The longest serving mayor was Matt Bemrich, who served 16 years from 2010 to 2025. Albert Habhab served as mayor for 14 years from 1960 to 1974. At the opposite ...

Editor’s note: With new settlements being established in the Northwest Territory, leaders of the still young United States tackled another issue — how to link cities in the east with new opportunities in the west. This happened through an act of Congress creating what came to be known as ...

The Iowa Central Community College football team — plus the sports medicine, pre-physical therapy and athletic training programs — will be housed in a new building on the Fort Dodge campus. The planned Center for Sports Performance will not be paid for with the $35 million bond issue ...

It took more than a year to build and equip the new 32,000-square-foot home of FORCE America Inc. in Fort Dodge. Despite all of the time and work, Jeff Warner, the company’s chairman and chief executive officer, stood in front of the building on First Avenue South Thursday and declared ...

A jury trial is underway for a Fort Dodge man charged with 39 counts of child abuse against his own baby. Austin Prewitt, 25, was charged in September 2025 with dozens of counts of both felony and misdemeanor child endangerment causing bodily injury, assault causing injury, child ...