A growing number of customers started getting their internet service from Fort Dodge Fiber last year. The new municipal broadband utility ended 2023 with just about 450 customers hooked up, according to Jeremy Pearson, the director of Fort Dodge Fiber. “We’ve got a lot of ...

To understand what Home and Homestead, a new business in Fort Dodge, has to offer, just think about the HGTV show “Love it or List it.” On the show, one host works to remodel a family’s home while the other works to find that same family a new home. In the end, the family must decide ...

About 900 wrestlers from across the United States converged on Fort Dodge for four days last summer. The occasion was the Iron Sharpens Iron Team Wrestling Camp at Iowa Central Community College. And it was another example of how Visit Fort Dodge is promoting sporting events and working ...

The Westridge Townhomes on the west side of Fort Dodge will be undergoing a major facelift in the next few years, thanks in part to $7.5 million in federal funding. On Dec. 21, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced that the property is receiving the Leading Edge ...

New faces and some familiar people in new roles now make up the staff of the Greater Fort Dodge Growth Alliance. Astra Ferris, who became chief executive officer of the Growth Alliance in September, introduced the current staff. Jefferson Fosbender has been named economic development ...

UnityPoint Health — Trinity Regional Medical Center had an economic impact of more than $132 million on Webster County last year, according to a recently released study. The Iowa Hospital Association study calculated the Fort Dodge hospital’s economic impact at $132,365,279. The ...