Even after the last votes were counted from Alaska's primary election, the final slate of candidates was far from settled. Late withdrawals shook up the races for governor, U.S. Senate and U.S. House, ...

Fort Dodge’s Reba Moffitt and Makinley Wheat continue to flourish every step of the way as they climb the youth amateur tumbling ranks – not just regionally, but nationally. Moffitt, a 14-year-old ...

Pancakes, airplanes and a community effort at the Fort Dodge Regional Airport helped to raise more than $5,600 to send area ...

The Fort Dodge Community School District has reported the weekend death of Matthew Bell, a teacher at Fort Dodge Senior High School. The district’s counselors and support staff will be available ...

Lily Lee, of Fort Dodge, was meeting all of her early milestones, but her parents became concerned when she still wasn’t walking well after her first birthday. “It was a completely perfect normal ...

Michael Larson, commercial market president at First Interstate Bank, shared one of the things that keeps employees at the institution busy on Monday and Tuesday mornings during a Community Fraud and ...

By BILL SHEA bshea@messengernews.net Iowa Central Community College President Jesse Ulrich was in Washington, D.C., Friday ...

President Donald Trump said Sunday that the massive arch he wants to build between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery would become a "top grade military complex" able to host drones ...

The Iowa Central football team secured another road win, besting Coffeyville here Saturday, 31-27. The 13th-ranked Tritons used a pair of defensive touchdowns to improve to 3-1 on the year, dropping ...

Obria Medical Clinics of Iowa is pleased to invite community members, business leaders, healthcare partners, and supporters to celebrate the grand opening and ribbon-cutting ceremony for its new Fort ...

For a few brief shining hours Saturday afternoon, Bob Meyer, of Callender, wasn’t Bob Meyer, of Callender. Instead he was Merlin the Magician from the Realm of Camelot. He was visiting the Kingdom of ...

Generations of Fort Dodge area families have purchased their washers, dryers, stoves and refrigerators from Ross’ Appliance Center. New local owners of the downtown store plan on serving future ...