Webster County News

An Iowa senator's mobile office will be swinging through Webster County, and his aide will listen residents' concerns about health reform.

A long-range plan to connect recreation areas throughout Fort Dodge and Webster County with pedestrian and bicycle trails could see Vision Iowa dollars.

Final consideration of a new Webster County zoning ordinance was pushed back two weeks in the wake of a request from several county residents.

New nursing school graduates are having an unusually tough time finding jobs after years of efforts to recruit people to the profession.

One person was injured when a semitrailer hit a car at the intersection of U.S. Highway 169 and Iowa Highway 7 in Fort Dodge Tuesday night.

FORT DODGE, Iowa - People used to seeing grain hoppers and box cars on Fort Dodge railroad tracks may have taken a second look when they spotted bright yellow passenger cars rolling by late Monday afternoon.

Beginning today, Webster County consumers will see a slightly higher sales tax. Rates on items subjected to sales tax have increased from 6.5 to 7 percent - or 7 cents on every dollar spent.

Federal stimulus money will help pay for rebuilding a bridge on a rural Webster County road.

Beginning July 1, 2010, the delivery of services of Iowa State University Extension will be altered to adjust to a $4.5 million budget cut for fiscal year 2010.

A minor explosion in the West Central Co-op elevator sent two employees to Trinity Regional Medical Center Wednesday morning.

Fire destroyed a barn Monday on the property of Gerald Ascherl, 2744 190th St., east of Fort Dodge.

A 20-year-old Renwick man has pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the 2008 death of a man who died of a head injury after an altercation.

Michael Zamora pleaded guilty today to involuntary manslaughter in connection with the 2008 death of Colby Pettigrew.

Dexter cattle, one of the world's smallest true breeds of cattle, will stampede into Fort Dodge Thursday.

A railroad yard and a facility for repairing rail cars may someday be built near the North Central Agricultural Industrial Park in Webster County.

The driver in a car crash that killed a Fort Dodge woman last year was charged with homicide by vehicle in Webster County Magistrate Court Tuesday.

By Iowa law, every third Monday of June, unpaid property tax revenues are offered at tax sale.

Even though she's retired, that doesn't mean Susan Gill's work is finished. Her days are spent serving others.

High in Trial and High Combined, Golden Retriever, OTCH Hightime's Ris N Above the Tide UDX, owned by Kathy Rosinovich-Platt Hound Group and Best in Show, Beagle 15" Ch orquay Midnight Confession Toy Group, Papillon Ch Marric's It takes a thief Big Red Angus didn't appear to be the least bit nervous before entering the show ring Saturday morning.

Next year the U-S government will take a national census, and they're asking city leaders to help out.