Editor’s note: This is the first part of a three-part series explaining the Iowa Central Community College bond issue referendum. Iowa Central Community College President Dr. Jesse Ulrich spends a lot of time meeting with business and community leaders across the nine-county area the ...
The Better Way Project, an initiative launched by a group of local real estate investors who wish to help revitalize downtown Fort Dodge as part of a larger economic development campaign, has purchased two commercial buildings as the first step in its planned rebirth of the city’s core ...
Thanks to an elderly steam heating system, classrooms in the Fort Dodge Senior High School can be frigid one day and uncomfortably warm the next day. And there are portions of the building that are virtually unchanged since it opened in 1958, a year when Dwight Eisenhower was in the White ...
Authorities have released the name of the man whose body was found at a home in Webster City early Monday morning. Osmar Matul Alvarado, 35, of Webster City, was discovered early Monday morning. Webster City Police Chief Steve Hanson said in a media release that authorities believe there ...
Around the area ROCKWELL CITY — St. Francis Catholic Church, 744 Main St., Rockwell City, is holding its annual Turkey Dinner from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. SUNDAY at the church. Tickets are $15 per person. The dinner will be served dine in or drive through for carryout orders. POCAHONTAS — ...