WEBSTER CITY — The ribbon cutting for the Rock River Resort south of Webster City was more than a celebration of a new start for a beautiful property. It marked a journey Connie Ingraham didn’t know she was going to make. Today the Rock River Retreat has a dorm with 20 beds, a ...

When it came time to establish themselves as new business owners on the block, there was no place like home for the Daniel triplets of Fort Dodge. Sam, Thomas and James Daniel are climbing the ladder – both literally and figuratively — with their new business, Daniel Gutters and ...

Farmers are used to a lot of uncertainty. Will the rains come at the right time, the right amount, or will they not come at all? Will the sun burn up the crops in July? Will thunderheads drop hail in August? But farmers are used to worrying about the weather. There’s a whole new world ...

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 ...

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 ...