By OWEN PROTHRO. Staff writer. While Marion City Council grapples with its 2027 budget, Marion Senior Center is trying to stay aflo ...

Ex-chief challenges prosecutors; defense wants out, from Marion County Record for Aug. 5, 2026 ...

Officer tells Peabody he can’t continue alone. By JUDD WEIL. Staff writer. Peabody’s lone police officer, Charles Walker, warned city council members last week that he could n ...

There was a field with an old Allis-Chalmers combine from around 1950 that was broken down and wheat was turning black. There were no parts to repair the combine. On some farms, women and men were ...

Danielle Bartel never imagined a career in local government. Today, she’s responsible for helping lead the town that raised her. “When I started at the city, I realized that I had found my people,” ...

Services for Katherine Bell Bishoff Otte, 98, who died Aug. 1, 2026, will be 11 a.m. Friday, Aug. 7, 2026, at St. John’s Lutheran Church, Lincolnville. Visitation will be an hour before the services ...

All those slick cards anonymous billionaires mail out every two or three hours, supposedly without candidates’ permission, finally have developed a much more practical purpose: They’re perfectly sized ...

Memorial services for Marcella Ruth (Schmidt) Woelk, 93, Goessel, who passed away July 29, 2026, at Bethesda Home in Goessel, were 3 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 4, at Goessel Church, an hour after burial at ...

By OWEN PROTHRO. Staff writer. Greg Wyatt and Brandon Rein each won the vote of Marion County constituents in Tuesday’s Republican primary, according t ...

By JUDD WEIL. Staff writer. Former Marion police chief Gideon Cody replaced his defense team Wednesday, prompting Judge Ryan Rosauer to postpone Cody ...

By JUDD WEIL. Staff writer. Nearly 120 employees and patients at St. Luke Hospital were caught up in a bomb scare Thursday after a voicemail prompted ...

Unwanted surprises are common with the abandoned and the working wells that dot Marion County. The state estimates 120,000 well bores have been drilled in the state, including oil and gas and ...