Rules regarding the presence of chickens in the city limits will be considered by the Fort Dodge City Council when it meets tonight. The council will meet at 6 p.m. in the Municipal Building, 819 First Ave. S. In a report to the council, Assistant City Manager Ryan Maehl wrote that the ...

Frontier Days 2025 got started Friday evening with some dancing and with some boards being broken by bare hands. Those demonstrations of youthful skills in dance and martial arts were part of an opening ceremony held at the Fort Museum and Frontier Village to give the annual community ...

For decades, readers of The Messenger have been able to turn to a regular column called Spotlight to learn about interesting people and groups in the community. Spotlight was started by former Editor Walt Stevens. His son, Paul Stevens, also a veteran newspaper man, began writing the ...

Another person has been arrested for their actions in the aftermath of a 2024 murder in Fort Dodge. Makayla S. McNeeley, 29, of 190 Avenue M West, was arrested Friday morning and charged with abuse of a corpse and accessory after the fact. The criminal complaints filed against her state ...

A man was seriously injured when his motorcycle crashed on U.S. Highway 169 south of Fort Dodge Wednesday night. The Iowa State Patrol identified him as Kyle P. Breiner, 30, of Fort Dodge. He was initially transported by ambulance to UnityPoint Health - Trinity Regional Medical Center. He ...