Tens of millions of Americans will do most, if not all, their holiday season shopping with giant online retail operations this year. They will argue that it is more convenient or safer for them to do so rather than patronize local brick-and-mortar stores. Local retailers, from mom-and-pop ...

Thanksgiving is a uniquely American holiday that features family, food, and yes, the occasional football game. In the spirit of the holiday, thousands of people in the Fort Dodge region gathered around tables with relatives and friends for a traditional feast on Thursday. Dining room tables ...

Sometimes in America, it seems as if we actually enjoy advertising our trials and difficulties. And, yes, we have had plenty of them this year. There were really trying times in the early days of our nation also. That is why America’s first formal Thanksgiving observance had far more ...

About two weeks ago, a group of people dashed through a closed supermarket, putting groceries in carts as fast as they possibly could. No, they weren’t looting the place. In fact, they were doing a good deed that will help hungry people in the Fort Dodge area. The people filling those ...

When it debuted some 56 years ago, the span that carries First Avenue South over the Union Pacific Railroad tracks was named Veterans Bridge. It was an appropriate name, but it was just a name and as the decades passed a number of people forgot that the bridge was even called that. Now ...

A special bike is enabling a Fort Dodge girl to get out and ride just like her brothers and all the other kids in her neighborhood. Aubreigh Ballard’s new set of wheels looks different from the other bikes spotted around Fort Dodge. But she now gets to go out and about, something that ...