Around the area MANSON — Pumpkin Fest is 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. SATURDAY and 1 to 5 p.m. SUNDAY at Twin Lakes Bible Camp, 7718 Twin Lakes Road, Manson. A wristband is $7 and zipline rides are $5. POCAHONTAS — PocaHAUNTus is from 7 to 10 p.m. SATURDAY at the Pocahontas Fire Station Shed, 300 ...

A $210 million debt and a balky elevator in a downtown building emerged as flashpoints Wednesday evening during a forum featuring many of the candidates for the Fort Dodge City Council. Ed Touney, who is seeking the Ward 4 council seat, has made the city’s indebtedness a focal point of ...

Iowa Army National Guard soldiers deployed to the Middle East will get a paycheck despite the federal government shutdown. “Per direction from the president, service members will continue to receive pay during this pay period,” Jackie Schmillen, director of public affairs for the Iowa ...

Iowa State Auditor Rob Sand is a Democrat seeking his party’s nomination for governor, but he’s not happy with the country’s current two-party political system. Political parties, he told a Fort Dodge audience Tuesday, “do more to divide us than solve our problems.” If he ...

ROCKWELL CITY — Wendy Larson, of Odeboldt, won the Republican nomination Tuesday evening for the District 7 seat in the Iowa House of Representatives. She will face Democrat Rachel Burns, also of Odeboldt, in the Dec. 9 special election prompted by the resignation of former state Rep. ...