Looking for more than a champagne toast or watching the count down in New York’s Times Square this New Year’s Eve? Once again this year you have a compelling alternative in Webster City. It’s Cross Over, and it promises to be an event you’ll never forget. What is Cross Over? ...

ALGONA — A fatal collision Monday evening killed a Webster City man and injured another. The Iowa State Patrol reported that Andres Garcia Esposito, 51, was driving a 2009 Ford Edge westbound on 210th Street in Algona. Daniel Eugene Murray Jr., 46, also of Webster City, was eastbound in a ...

FORT DODGE — The Fort Museum and Frontier Village welcomes The Whitesidewalls Rock ‘n’ Roll Revue from Minneapolis for its annual fundraising event on Saturday, Dec. 28. “Lead singer Dave ‘Swanee’ Swanson and the band are looking very forward to their visit,” said Deborah Davis, ...

Ask a Webster City High School student “who was Prem Sahai?” and they probably won’t know. Yet here, surely, is a man worth remembering. His son, Subash Sahai, a physician at Van Diest Medical Center in Webster City, offered this summary of his father’s life. “In 1956, Dad was an ...

WASHINGTON — Congress finally approved a stopgap spending bill early Saturday that will keep the government open and provide a short-term extension on many programs, including the Farm, Food, and National Security Act, also known as the farm bill. The 118-page bill will extend programs in ...

The Hamilton County Board of Supervisors will meet this morning in the basement conference room of the Hamilton County Courthouse, 2300 Superior Street, Webster City. This meeting begins at 9 a.m. On the agenda are Clerk of Court and post election audit (Auditor Certification) ...