Two people were seriously injured when the car they were in slammed into a tree in Loomis Park late Tuesday night. Firefighters had to cut the roof off of the Chevrolet Malibu to free them. The crash was reported at 11:05 p.m. Sgt. Andy Hobart, of the Iowa State Patrol, said the car was ...

Editor’s Note: This is part one of a two-part series on being part of the foreign exchange experience. Wednesday’s story will feature both a foreign exchange student’s and a host family’s experience. Foreign exchange students have found Fort Dodge to be a welcoming community when ...

President Thomas Jefferson knew his young nation had a problem when France, led by the ambitious Napoleon Bonaparte, got control of New Orleans and the vast territory surrounding it. “We knew it would be an eternal problem for us, and it could not stand,” the former president told a Fort ...

The Des Moines River continues to fall in Webster County. On Monday, Webster County Emergency Management reported the river at 14.21 feet. It is expected to fall throughout the week. The National Weather Service has forecast additional rainfall for the coming week which may affect river ...

A man who went into a Fort Dodge bar early Sunday morning and pistol whipped another man has been jailed on multiple criminal charges. Terry L. Altman, 59, of Fort Dodge, went into Fourth Street Depot, 300 S. Fourth St., at 2:30 a.m. Sunday with a handgun and stated something like “no one ...

LEHIGH — A Lehigh man is wanted on charges that his neglect led to the deaths of two horses, according to court records. An arrest warrant has been issued for Michael J. Dorothy, 46, court records indicate. On June 14, Webster County sheriff’s deputies observed a dead horse on ...