Damaged communications lines at a key air traffic control facility in Philadelphia had been repaired, allowing airports across the U.S. Northeast to resume operations after hours of disruptions, the ...

One of the largest U.S. franchisees for Wendy's has filed for bankruptcy protection after the restaurant chain tried to terminate its franchise agreement. Meritage Hospitality Group, which operates ...

-Messenger photo by Hans Madsen <BR> Kara Stuelke, of Callender, transfers the flame from one torch to the other torch with ...

Magistrate Court WEBSTER COUNTY Monday Second-degree burglary — Aidann Robert Douglas Skaggs, 23, Urbandale, preliminary hearing set for Oct.1, no contact order issued. Second-degree criminal mischief ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...