The Fort Dodge City Council will continue its review of the proposed 2023-2024 budget this evening. The council will meet at 5 p.m. in the Municipal Building, 819 First Ave. S. It will review the proposed budgets for the Karl L. King Municipal Band, Fort Dodge Convention and Visitors ...

MANSON — Manson firefighters made a quick attack on a garage fire to prevent it from spreading to the attached house on Thursday evening. The home of Mark Egli and Janet Olson-Egli, 844 Eighth St., caught fire around 4:30 p.m. Egli said he was at the store when a neighbor called to tell him ...

Clean Laundry, a new laundromat in Fort Dodge, donated $600 to the YWCA of Fort Dodge which was raised during the Clean For A Cause event in December. Clean For A Cause is an event-based donation where 100 percent of the proceeds from the laundry services on the day of the event go to a ...

U.S. Rep. Randy Feenstra, R-Hull, was named to the House Ways and Means Committee. That committee is responsible for tax legislation. It is a powerful panel because under the Constitution, all tax bills must originate in the House of Representatives. “I am humbled to be selected to serve ...

The search for a new superintendent for the Fort Dodge Community School District will be wrapping up in the next several weeks. The application period opened Dec. 14 and will close Jan. 16. As of Monday night, there have been seven candidates who have applied, according to interim ...

A funding request for the at-risk/dropout prevention program in the Fort Dodge Community School District was approved by the board of education on Monday evening. The $1,319,885 request will be submitted to the state’s School Budget Review Committee for Modified Supplemental Amount and ...