Badger News

Here's a look at the campaign finances of Fort Dodge candidates this year, based on reports filed with the Iowa Ethics and Campaign Disclosure Board on Oct.

Violet M. West, 89, of Fort Dodge, passed away on Saturday, October 31, 2009 at the Tompkins Memorial Health Center in Fort Dodge.

Is it something we plan for? Is it something we prepare for? Unless you're in the service or employed in some kind of emergency response profession, probably not.

Today, nearly two dozen individuals were recognized for performing a heroic act in an attempt to save someone's life, or unselfishly assisting others in an emergency situation.

Gov. Chet Culver will honor Iowa's citizen heroes this week when he presents the 2009 Governor's Lifesaving Awards on Friday at the Iowa State Fair.

A Fort Dodge man who rescued two teenagers from a burning house in Badger last summer will receive the Governor's Lifesaving Award with Valor today.

Guard planes will be flying at lower-than-usual altitudes over the next month, beginning Monday.

Guard planes will be flying at lower-than-usual altitudes over the next month, beginning Monday.

Joe Orozco considered several local events to which to invite his brother Sal before deciding on the Lizard Creek Blues Society Blues Under The Trees blues festival.

A two-vehicle crash sent four people to the hospital Tuesday afternoon. Farshad Sayadinejad, 57, was driving a Rabiner Treatment Center minivan when he turned left onto 170th Street from U.S. Highway 169.

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.

John P. Laska, 89, went to be with his Lord on Saturday, June 27, 2009, at the Paula J. Baber Hospice Home in Fort Dodge.

A semitrailer driver involved in a serious one-vehicle accident Monday is not being identified by authorities.

Stray dogs and cats will likely have a new nemesis later this year. That's because Fort Dodge and Webster County officials hope to have a new animal control officer on the job.

When John Shehan sat down in front of a pile of precut boards piled on table in the reception center at John F. Kennedy Memorial Park he knew exactly what to do with each one of them to turn the lumber into a wood duck nesting box.

Plans for a new animal shelter in Fort Dodge have at least one resident worried that she'll have a bunch of noisy four-legged neighbors.