An investment of more than $50 million in the Cargill plant in Webster County will enable it to begin making corn syrup for the first time. The first shipments of corn syrup are expected to begin in mid-2024. Cargill leaders had announced a planned investment in the plant in February 2022 ...

Nearly $1.6 million from the state government will help pay for building new hangars at the Fort Dodge Regional Airport. The airport is eligible for $1,585,761 from the Iowa Commercial Aviation Infrastructure Fund, thanks to $100 million of federal COVID-19 relief money deposited in that ...

Jeremy Pearson uses an informal term from the world of information technology to describe the status of Fort Dodge Fiber at the beginning of 2022. “At the start of 2022, it was all pretty much vaporware,” said Pearson, who is the director of the new municipal broadband utility. “It was ...

In the decade since CJ Bio America found its home in Iowa’s Crossroads of Global Innovation ag industrial park west of Fort Dodge, the company has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in Webster County. CJ Bio America’s most recent investment, a $20 million expansion of its plant ...

AML Riverside, a Fort Dodge maker of animal pharmaceuticals, is about to launch another expansion project. It will be an $11 million investment that will create 16 new jobs. “This investment will provide an important new capability for our Fort Dodge facility that enables continued future ...

Downtown Fort Dodge is more than a collection of buildings, streets and sidewalks, in the opinion of Sharon Stroh. “A downtown is a heart beat,” she said. “It’s a snapshot of everything a community was built on.” And, she said, downtown is here to stay. “You can’t tear down ...