Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg’s campaign is opening an office in Fort Dodge. A celebration will be held from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. tonight at 12 N. 11th St.

Webster and Hamilton County Conservation Boards are sponsoring a Fireside Chat at 6 p.m. Thursday at Camp WaNoKi, 2401 WaNoKi Camp Road. Knapping enthusiast Pat Hashman of Story City will give a presentation on Hands-on Archaeology using rock and hammer stones to make “arrowheads.” There ...

Author James Drew will be signing his book, “Tough Street, the Remarkable Life of Gerald ‘Germ’ Leeman,” from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday at River Hops Brewing, 1014 Central Ave. Gerald “Germ” Leeman is a former coach of the Fort Dodge Dodgers.

North 12th Street between Second and Third avenues north will be closed beginning at 7 a.m. today, according to the Fort Dodge Public Works Department. The road will be closed because city crews will be replacing a fire hydrant. It will remain closed until the work is completed.

A man escaped unharmed Wednesday when a train hit the trailer hitched to the truck he was driving in a collision just west of Fort Dodge. The collision happened at 12:02 p.m. near the 2100 mile of 200th Street. Webster County Sheriff Jim Stubbs said Terry Stanton, of Oelwein, was driving a ...

A utility pole in the 2400 block of 18th Avenue North caught fire at about 12:15 p.m. Wednesday, according to Geoff Greenwood, spokesman for MidAmerican Energy Co. Crews with MidAmerican determined that an insulator on the pole failed, Greenwood reported. The insulator was replaced. One ...