The employee rosters of Fort Dodge businesses include many people who don’t live in Fort Dodge or Webster County. There are many reasons why people may chose to live elsewhere, but at least some of those folks live outside of town simply because they can’t find a place to live in Fort ...

When COVID-19 hit the United States in 2020, health care professionals across the nation were pushed to their limits. They were dealing with an unheard-of disease and the protocols for treating it were changing on nearly a daily basis. The number of infections and deaths were growing ...

Egg production is big business in Iowa. The state’s roughly 60 million laying hens generate a remarkable 16 billion eggs each year, making Iowa the No. 1 egg-producing state in the nation. The Iowa egg industry is a big purchaser of Iowa’s other agricultural products. The state’s layers ...

A group of senators met last week to try to prevent anyone from stealing the 2024 presidential election or from once again inciting an armed mob to attack the Capitol. The bipartisan band, led by Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.), aims to update the 1887 Electoral ...

Catholic education has been an important part of life in Fort Dodge almost since the town was founded. The first Catholic school got underway in 1862. The 160 years since have witnessed many changes and stupendous progress. The impressive educational complex that is today’s St. Edmond is a ...

There is perhaps no profession that is so intertwined with an individual’s life as nursing is. Nurses are there to help bring new life into the world. They administer the vaccines, and help people get through all the various illnesses and injuries of a lifetime. And at the very end, nurses ...