Samuel Z. Arkoff made an indelible mark on Hollywood movies with a steady stream of fast cars, monsters and beautiful women. But long before he released a long list of action-packed films aimed at teenagers, Arkoff was a Fort Dodge Senior High School student who frequented the local ...

LEHIGH — A $6.2 million federal grant awarded to Webster County will help pay for replacing the aging Lehigh Bridge. Webster County received the grant in the first round of awards from the FY2025 Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity (RAISE) discretionary grant ...

Three area businesses are among 20 small businesses that have been awarded more than $275,000 in grants from the Empower Rural Iowa Initiative. La Perla Jarocha Store in Webster City, Woods Super Market in Pocahontas, and Wildcat Distilling Co. in Duncombe were all recipients of grant awards ...

The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship confirmed earlier this week the state’s first 2025 detection of the highly pathogenic avian flu in a multi-species backyard flock in Clinton County. This follows a series of detections in commercial and backyard flocks across the ...

Isaac Bachman, 20, was sentenced Friday afternoon to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the June 2023 fatal shooting of 14-year-old Dakari James. Bachman, of Fort Dodge, was found guilty of first degree murder on Oct. 30 following a jury trial. He was convicted of ...