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Nearly 380 animals rescued in Marshall County livestock neglect investigation

The Marshall County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO) recently rescued a total of 379 animals from a rural Marshalltown property as part of an investigation into allegations of livestock neglect. Last Thursday at approximately 7 a.m., the MCSO received a complaint that a young pony was struggling ...

‘This is how you rebuild rural Iowa’

Chris Jones, an author and former research scientist at the University of Iowa, has been sounding the alarm on Iowa’s water quality issues for about a decade now, and the Democrat who hopes to become the state’s next secretary of agriculture focused primarily on that familiar topic during ...

Study: Marshalltown needs housing of all types

Editor’s Note: This is part two of a two-part series on the building of new apartments, town-homes and more in Marshalltown by its major employers. In recent years several have spent funds or provided other assets in the building of apartments, town houses and more specifically for ...