The now-familiar and always controversial topic of on-street angle parking downtown came back up for discussion during Monday night’s Marshalltown city council meeting as one councilor suggested converting all remaining pull-in angle parking stalls to back-in — though the idea failed to ...

On Wednesday, the Marshalltown Police Department received a report of a dog stranded in the Iowa River. Officers responded immediately and initiated a search of the area. With assistance from a police drone, the dog was located along the river near East Main Street Road. Due to the dog’s ...

From organized firefighting techniques created in the Middle Ages to those in colonial America to Marshalltown, Fire Chief Christopher Cross detailed all and more during a presentation Tuesday night at the Historical Society of Marshall County’s (HSMC) iconic Mowry-Irvine Mansion. It was ...

The state veterinarian determined on Monday that Scout, a new Riverside Cemetery goose, died of the avian flu. Kelly Schott, general manager at Riverside, said they are following state and federal guidelines and monitoring the remaining birds. They are also following established protocols in ...

ALBION — Wade Dooley, a sixth-generation farmer from Albion, announced his campaign for Iowa Secretary of Agriculture and Land Stewardship as a Democrat in a press release issued on Tuesday. Dooley, who operates his family’s Century Farm northwest of Marshalltown and owns a custom seeding ...

After previously discussing the matter back in July of 2025, the Marshalltown city council weighed options for the future of the century-old city hall building at 24 N. Center St. and potentially moving the eight employees currently housed inside of it into the adjacent Carnegie structure to ...