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 ...

DES MOINES — Des Moines-based author J. Kirby Smith, a Waterloo native and onetime Marshalltown resident, has penned a new novella titled “Fifty Shades of Faye,” which he describes as both a romantic story and a commentary on the current political climate. Smith is a retired blue ...

Iowa Senate Republicans unveiled their property tax plan Monday as the 2026 session began, saying the state’s system for collecting these local taxes must be rebuilt in order to lower costs for taxpayers. Sen. Dan Dawson, R-Council Bluffs, and Senate Majority Leader Mike Klimesh, ...

The Marshalltown city council met for the first time in 2026 on Monday night with a new mayor — Mike Ladehoff — and new councilors Sue Cahill and Marco Yepez-Gomez, with the caveat that Cahill previously served on the council before departing for a seat in the Iowa House in 2021. After ...

The Reimagine Miller project continues moving forward. The Marshalltown Community School District Board of Education approved construction for the remaining bid packages at the regular Monday meeting. Mitch Broekemeier of Boyd Jones Construction told the board members a lot of things happened ...