HARCOURT — U.S. Highway 169 east of Harcourt will be temporarily closed beginning Nov. 11 for an Iowa Department of Transportation project. According to Webster County Engineer Jamie Johll, the DOT will be replacing the culvert between Madison Avenue and Nelson Avenue. Traffic will be ...

Larry Wuebker spent his 20th birthday on a 23-hour flight across the Pacific Ocean from California to South Vietnam. When he arrived at Bien Hoa Air Base, he got off the plane and had to run to the safety of some bunkers because mortar rounds were landing on the base and exploding. It was ...

SPENCER — He might wander from home, but never far from his pigs. Don Haupts, 97, from Manson, has been exhibiting pigs at the Clay County Fair for the last 52 years. That means he first stepped foot into the CCF show ring with his pigs in 1972, when he was 45 years old. “We’ve ...

Webster County voters are keeping the Auditor’s Office busy before election day. According to Webster County Auditor Doreen Pliner, 2,746 residents have voted in person with 2,100 requesting a ballot by mail and 1,732 having returned a ballot as of Wednesday evening. “I have an amazing ...

It took a jury less than two hours of deliberation Wednesday to find Isaac Bachman guilty of first-degree murder in the shooting death of Dakari James. Bachman, 19, of Fort Dodge, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder after shooting 14-year-old James four times on June 17, ...