-Messenger photo Dana Lantz, advertising manager of The Messenger, presents Webster County Sheriff Luke Fleener with a check ...

Submitted photo: Kent Osboe as a senior heavyweight member of the Fort Dodge wrestling squad in 1963-64. AUSTIN, Minn. — Kent ...

Kim Mason, of Fort Dodge, says volunteering and getting involved in the community helps her stay connected. Editor’s note: ...

Multiple sheriff’s departments throughout north central Iowa are warning residents of a scam targeting residents, some of which have lost tens of thousands of dollars. Last week, Sac County Chief ...

Ask a Webster City High School student “who was Prem Sahai?” and they probably won’t know. Yet here, surely, is a man worth ...

The Iowa Central football program placed four student-athletes on the NJCAA All-American teams, the league announced recently ...

Cortney Hoover’s drive to make music a part of her life came from her grandpa. Music has always been a part of her life, but ...

A fatal collision Monday evening killed a Webster City man and injured another. The Iowa State Patrol says Andres Garcia Esposito, 51, was driving a 2009 Ford Edge westbound on 210th Street in Algona.

Two new troopers will be joining District 7, which is the Fort Dodge office of the Iowa State Patrol. Trooper Bennett Eaton and Trooper Benjamin Gunderson both graduated from the Iowa Department of ...

Leaving a vehicle parked on a downtown Fort Dodge street longer than what is allowed will likely cost the offending driver a ...

Five area students were named to the Dean’s List for the fall semester at Morningside University in Sioux City. They are Seth Walker, of Algona; Elizabeth Hogrefe, of Eagle Grove; Destinee Martin, of ...

Santa Claus won’t be the only one on the move this holiday week. More than 119 million people are expected to travel for ...