CONRAD — For years, the city of Conrad has been landlocked without any way to expand its limits and explore further commercial and housing development. So when Mayor Jeff Martin and the city council had the chance to purchase 91.86 acres just east of the current limits and eventually annex ...

STATE CENTER — Braving the frigid temperatures Thursday evening, over 30 State Center area residents responded to Police Chief Jon Thomas’s offer to hold a community meeting to gather information and formulate questions for the Department of Transportation (DOT) in regards to the proposed ...

TAMA — When Flex Fitness Owner Ashley Hazen and her husband Justin bought the former Tama News-Herald and Tama-Toledo News Chronicle building at 220 W. 3rd St. back in 2023, they were excited about the opportunity to more than double their space and create a state-of-the-art workout center ...

TAMA — The first time South Tama County (STC) High School Speech Coach Dixie Forcht saw a cut of the short film five of her students filmed inside a shop that was once the Sheda’s Fur Trading plant in Chelsea near her home, she had an admittedly visceral reaction. For one, she watched her ...

The effort by some Iowa legislators to ban geoengineering in Iowa skies might not make much of an actual difference. Introduced by 23 Republican representatives and led by Rep. Jeff Shipley (R-Birmingham), House File 191 (HF191) was recommended for passage by the House Environmental ...

On Thursday, a Marshall County jury found Josiah Benbow, 27, of Melbourne, guilty of second-degree sexual abuse and enticing a minor. The charges involved the December 2022 sexual abuse of a person who was under the age of 14 at the time. A sentencing hearing is scheduled for April 21. ...