A vacant city-owned lot at the corner of 1st Street and West Main Street will get new life as the latest pocket park in Marshalltown after the city council officially approved an amended agreement with the Arts + Culture Alliance during last Monday night’s regular meeting. City Parks and ...
Two national Democratic lawmakers endorsed Josh Turek for U.S. Senate on Saturday and called for term limits for U.S. Supreme Court justices and lawmakers. Nearly 700 Iowans gathered at Des Moines Water Works Park for the 2026 Polk County Steak Fry to hear from 10 current legislators and ...
IOWA CITY — U.S. Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks spoke Monday with cancer survivors and researchers and signed the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network’s promise to support the network’s priorities to end cancer. Miller-Meeks, who is running for reelection in Iowa’s 1st ...
Adults of a certain age — namely, this author’s — could be forgiven for believing they’d accidentally stumbled into a time machine as they entered the opening of local artist Austin Chadderdon’s “When I Grow Up’ portrait exhibit at the Arts + Culture Alliance building on West ...
Councilor Gary Thompson pulled an item from the consent agenda at last Monday night’s Marshalltown city council meeting in an attempt to clarify which buildings are eligible for code building upgrade grant funding. The grant in question is in the amount of $30,000 for St. Mary Catholic ...
DES MOINES — By the time Toledo’s Belle Werner was crowned the 2026 Iowa State Fair Queen, she had already put together a State Fair week to remember. Werner, the daughter of Eric and Michele Werner, was crowned Iowa State Fair Queen on Saturday, Aug. 15, capping a week that included a ...
