Mayor Joel Greer took to social media to announce Marshalltown’s mask mandate will continue. The post came a day after Gov. Kim Reynolds announced on Friday she would lift many of Iowa’s mitigation efforts, including mask-wearing and social-distancing requirements. Mask requirements and ...

WASHINGTON — House Democrats on Monday proposed an additional $1,400 in direct payments to individuals as Congress began piecing together a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package that tracks President Joe Biden’s plan for battling the pandemic and reviving a still staggering ...

Iowa is making strides in the administration of coronavirus vaccines, but it continues to rank among the states with the slowest rollout. As of Monday, 510,550 vaccine doses had been delivered to the state of Iowa, but only 345,350 shots, or 67 percent of the available vaccines, had been ...

MISSION, Kan. — Mortuary owner Brian Simmons has been making more trips to homes to pick up bodies to be cremated and embalmed since the pandemic hit. With COVID-19 devastating communities in Missouri, his two-person crews regularly arrive at homes in the Springfield area and remove ...

WASHINGTON — America’s employers barely added jobs last month, underscoring the viral pandemic’s ongoing grip on the economy and likely adding momentum to the Biden administration’s push for a bold rescue aid package. The increase of just 49,000 positions in January made scarcely ...

The Marshalltown Community School District confirmed eight new cases of COVID-19 among students and employees on Friday: • Total cases among students: six • Total cases among staff: two Previous reports and the number of cases include Jan. 29, four cases; Jan. 15, 10 cases; Jan. 8, 16 ...