DES MOINES — A state audit report on government spending released Monday accused Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds of using nearly $450,000 in federal coronavirus relief funds to pay salaries for 21 staff members for three months last year and concealing the spending by passing it through the state ...

TIMES-REPUBLICAN Shots are going in arms in Marshall County for 5-11 year olds who are newly eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. County health director Pat Thompson was delivering pediatric vaccine doses to area health clinics Wednesday. She said doses are available at McFarland Clinic, ...

The Iowa Department of Public Health is reporting six new deaths related to COVID-19 in Marshall County this week. Last week was the first in nearly two months when the county did not record a new COVID death, and a total of 91 deaths have been reported in Marshall County since the start of ...

Some of Iowa’s largest health care companies scrambled Monday to adapt employee vaccination mandates to a brand-new Iowa law allowing for broad exemptions. Several Iowa hospital systems, including MercyOne, UnityPoint Health and Broadlawns Medical Center, announced in August that they would ...

THE Associated Press WASHINGTON — Anticipating a green light from vaccine advisers, the Biden administration is assembling and shipping millions of COVID-19 shots for children ages 5-11, the White House said Monday. The first could go into kids’ arms by midweek. “We are not waiting on ...

For the first time in nearly two months, Marshall County did not report a new death related to COVID-19 in the last week. The virus has been tied to 85 deaths in the county, according to the Iowa Department of Public Health. Across the state, 6,965 people have died with COVID infections. More ...