There was no big fanfare. Only a handful of people gathered to pay their respects. Yet there was something profound about the ...

The search is on for a new chief of the Fort Dodge Fire Department. After 36 years of service, Steve Hergenreter will retire ...

Since taking over as Iowa Central head football coach in 2017, Jesse Montalto’s teams have been nearly unbeatable after Halloween. Montalto and the Tritons will look to keep that trend going on ...

It’ll be easy to tell who’s in the cast when the Fort Dodge Senior High School fall play takes the stage, according to Drama ...

Lehigh Methodist Church is holding a second Sunday soup supper from 5 to 7 p.m. Sunday at the church. The menu includes four or five different soups with dessert and a drink for a freewill offering.

Throughout their military careers, veterans generally had a duty station that was their home base. Those veterans now have fresh incentives to make Fort Dodge and Webster County their new home base.

Kurt Paeper’s tour of duty in South Vietnam turned out to be short and extremely painful. When it was over he was awarded the ...

Iowa’s top education official visited the Fort Dodge Community School District recently. McKenzie Snow, director of the Iowa ...

The Fort Dodge swim team already has three state qualifiers, and they are hoping to add to that total here on Saturday. The Dodgers, who are in one of six regional meets across the state, will begin ...

Blanden Memorial Art Museum, 920 Third Ave. S., will be closed on Tuesday in observance of Veterans Day. The museum will resume normal hours of 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Wednesday.

The Messenger will not be published on Monday in observance of the Veterans Day holiday. Check www.messengernews.net throughout the weekend for breaking news. The Messenger will be published on ...

There will be a Veterans Day celebration and swing dance beginning at noon Monday at the Best Western Starlite Village, 1518 Third Ave. N.W. At noon there will be food and drinks for purchase. There ...