This year was one of resilience and growth for the Animal Rescue League (ARL) of Marshalltown. Executive Director Austin Gillis said they launched the PAWS (Pet Awareness and Wellness Support) Voucher program and expanded the mobile pet food pantry. “We also strengthened partnerships ...

Grant Gibbons is the new publisher of The Times-Republican and the Tama-Grundy weekly publications. Gibbons had been the publisher of The Journal in New Ulm, Minn. and the Independent in Marshall, Minn. for the past three years. Gibbons had served as regional circulation director at The ...

GARWIN — On Monday afternoon, the Tama County Sheriff’s Office shared a post on Facebook seeking assistance in locating 22-year-old Garwin man Nicholas Collins, who was last seen on Dec. 19. According to the post, Collins left a note saying he was “going away for a while” and left ...

Iowa’s rural health care improvement plan, “Healthy Hometowns,” was awarded $209 million Monday as part of a federal funding program under the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Gov. Kim Reynolds and the Iowa Department of Health and Human Services said the federal funding ...

The highest wind gust from the recent blizzard that began on Sunday and continued into Monday morning in northern and central Iowa — 61 miles per hour — was recorded at the Marshalltown airport just north of town, according to information shared by the National Weather Service. Marshall ...

The funeral service for Staff Sgt. William Nathaniel “Nate” Howard was held Saturday morning at the Marshalltown High School Roundhouse. Hundreds of citizens and uniformed soldiers gathered inside to honor the slain Iowa National Guardsman, who was killed in an ISIS terrorist attack in ...