TAMA COUNTY – Tama County Sheriff Casey Schmidt is ready to go big — really big — for area students. “I want this to be a completely over-the-top, special, make-a-big-deal-about-this award ceremony. Hopefully leave an impact on the kids,” Sheriff Schmidt told the newspaper ...
Iowa’s official database of animal feeding operations, which serves as the state’s primary regulatory inventory of livestock facilities, does not include thousands of facilities that researchers say contribute to the state’s growing manure burden and potential water pollution. After ...
Iowa Senate Democrats criticized the state attorney general’s office Thursday for not distributing money from the Opioid Settlement Fund to organizations focused on opioid addiction treatment and prevention services. Iowa has received $365 million in settlement funds through several ...
After the Thursday edition of the Times-Republican went to press, the RAGBRAI festivities were far from over as Katie and the Honky Tonks and the Pork Tornadoes rocked the main downtown stage with food trucks still set up all around before riders headed back to their camping or lodging ...
GREEN MOUNTAIN — For a few hours, the population of the unincorporated Marshall County community of Green Mountain grew exponentially on Thursday morning as thousands of RAGBRAI riders stopped by for breakfast and rest as part of the long journey from Wednesday’s overnight in Marshalltown ...
The reasons for Iowa residents to feel discouraged are varied, but they were given the opportunity to make their voices heard. The What’s Eating Iowans Listening Tour was held late Wednesday afternoon at the Marshalltown Public Library. The purpose of the tour is to listen to Iowans talk ...
