By DANA BECKER [email protected] The Fort Dodge wrestling team is ranked 13th in the first edition of the IHSAA dual ...

This article first appeared in the Farm News Barns tab published on Nov. 28, 2025. CLARION — While the dairy cattle are gone, ...

Five Iowa Central football players have been named All-Americans by the NJCAA, including a pair who have landed on the ...

Fort Dodge is Humboldt south for Wildcat junior Broedy Hendricks. The top-ranked 190-pounder continued his dominance at the ...

It started with a conversation. During a basketball game at Fort Dodge Senior High School, Love Bomb was formed. Senior Sam ...

Matt Bemrich has been a steady presence in the Fort Dodge City Council meeting room for 20 years. He served four years as an ...

-Messenger photo by Bill Shea Fort Dodge Mayor Matt Bemrich reads a proclamation honoring Fort Dodge Police Dept. Lt. Matt ...

Ten years. I was walking in our neighborhood recently after a snowstorm, and happened to pass our family’s “secret” sledding ...

Stephanie Higgins, of Gowrie, came to the Operation Ornament fundraiser at the Laramar Ballroom in Fort Dodge Saturday to ...

All across the nation, a feeling of anticipation is in the air. It is Christmas Eve, a time when those whose jobs do not demand that they be at work complete preparations for Christmas, the biggest ...

Christmas has always been a season of coming home. For a long time, that meant flying from New York or driving from Chicago back to Fort Dodge. I would walk in the door, drop my bags, and find my dad ...

The Twelve Days of Christmas” will be a daily reality for 414 Manson Northwest Webster elementary students over Christmas ...