When 9-year-old Colton Holmes isn’t playing Pokemon or preparing for the Duncombe Elementary School Christmas concert, he’s giving interviews to national TV reporters and magazines. The Fort Dodge third-grader has become a viral sensation after he cleared snow from a fire hydrant near ...

The Fort Dodge Choral Society will perform its annual Christmas concert on Sunday, but members of the group won’t be the only ones singing. The concert will begin at 2:30 p.m. in First United Methodist Church with a Chrstmas carol sing-along in which people in the audience will join Choral ...

A drunk driving charge against Mayor Matt Bemrich was dropped Wednesday, days after a judge ruled that police had no grounds to pull him over on the September evening on which he was arrested. Assistant Webster County Attorney Doug Cook filed a motion seeking dismissal of the ...

A man was detained by police after firing a gun in Fort Dodge Wednesday evening. The incident at 720 B St. was reported at about 4:45 p.m. Police Lt. Joe Bates said two or three people got into an argument and a man pulled out a handgun and fired two rounds into the ground. “He never ...