Six Messenger-area softball players earned Iowa Girls Coaches Association All-State honors on Monday. In Class 1A Newell-Fonda teammates Kinzee Hinders, Anna Mercer and Ellie Sievers were all honored.

The St. Edmond softball team has been on a run the past four seasons. The Gaels have made three straight tournaments and ...

A strong season on the diamond garnered postseason honors for three Fort Dodge softball players. Sophomores Hope Alstott, ...

A second man has been arrested in connection with a July 4 burglary in which a woman was beaten with a bat or club. John C. Schlack, 28, of 106 N. 10th St., was arrested by Fort Dodge police on Monday ...

My predecessor in Iowa’s Third Congressional District was known as “a watchdog to the Treasury.” During 13 terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, Congressman Harold Royce (H.R.) Gross kept a ...

A man has been arrested and charged with making a bomb threat against a Fort Dodge dental clinic, according to court records. Robert D. Ulicki, 75, of Lehigh, was charged by Fort Dodge police with ...

Area families are already beginning to think about the items that will be needed to send young people back to school properly equipped and looking good. According to the National Retail Federation, ...

DART bus riders will be paying a bit more under a contract approved by the Fort Dodge City Council Monday. The council approved a one-year agreement with MIDAS Council of Governments for operation of ...

A Webster County deputy has resigned amid investigations by local and state officials. According to Webster County Sheriff Luke Fleener, Deputy Sheriff Trevir Michehl was placed on administrative ...

An excessive heat warning paired with derecho level winds has most Iowans wishing for cooler seasons. “It’s just so hot,” ...

A Fort Dodge man pleaded guilty and was sentenced Monday to 110 years in prison for sexually abusing three children over the past 15 years. Christopher J. Novencido, 44, pleaded guilty to four counts ...

A man has been arrested for reportedly breaking into a Fort Dodge apartment and restraining the resident while someone else beat her with a bat or club, according to court records. David S. Dayton, 39 ...