The horticulture team with Iowa State University Extension and Outreach will hold the 2026 Fruit and Vegetable Field Day on Wednesday, July 29, from 2 to 5 p.m. at the ISU Horticulture Research Station in Ames. more

View the Scott County Sheriff's report from the July 15 NSP! more

View the Eldridge Police report from the July 15 NSP! more

The Eldridge City Council and the Eldridge Volunteer Fire Company have agreed to sit down face-to-face again to try to work out lingering issues regarding the fire department’s funding. more

Eldridge residents say the city should explore building new facilities. They’re just not keen on the proposed price tag. more

The Eldridge Summer Festival returns this weekend, welcoming current and former residents for activities, food and drinks during a weekend of midsummer celebration. more

Six young ladies will vie for the title of Mississippi Valley Fair Queen on July 21. The queen will reign over the Fair, scheduled for Aug. 4-9, and represent the Mississippi Valley Fair in the Iowa State Fair Queen contest, Aug. 11-15. more

Scott County Democrats have picked Karen Roebuck of Davenport to contest the State House seat currently held by Republican Mike Vondran.  more

Members of the Eldridge Volunteer Fire Company say they have a plan to keep the department solvent and sustainable in the years to come. They fear that funding may not come from the City of Eldridge. more

During last Wednesday’s open house, members of the Eldridge Fire Department expressed concern that the city would try to eliminate EMS service in the future. City officials said that concern is completely unfounded. more

The Iowa Utilities Commission has given opponents of a power plant proposed for rural Scott County until the end of the month to intervene against Central Iowa Power Company’s push for a permit that would bypass local zoning restrictions. more

The Concerned Citizens of Scott County announced plans to launch a legal and civic campaign to help stop the proposed peaking plant announced by CIPCO. Members are asking for financial support to assist with their legal defense, zoning advocacy and community outreach. more

Scott County will spend more than a million dollars over the next decade to store body camera footage and other digital evidence collected by the sheriff’s office. more

Eldridge police officer Erik Johnson is congratulated by mayor Scott Campbell during Monday's city council meeting. Johnson received a Lifesaving Award from the department pursuant to an incident he responded to on Jan. 15. During the call, an individual was reportedly unresponsive and not breathing. Upon arrival, Johnson assessed the situation and was able to stabilize the individual until emergency medical personnel arrived, helping to save a life. more

A federal waiver allowing Iowa to restrict the types of food that can be purchased with federal nutrition assistance has been vacated, according to the Iowa Department of Health and Human Services. more

Some areas of Iowa received more than two month’s worth of rain in a 36-hour period, leaving fields and basements flooded, according to the latest Iowa weather summary and crop progress and condition report. more

WASHINGTON — What’s more American than apple pie? Capitalism. And an array of merchandise and influence is on sale for the 250th birthday of the United States. more

The Iowa State University Extension and Outreach Dairy Team will host a series of on-farm dairy processing field days that highlight successful niche-market herds in Iowa. Regional dairy producers are invited to explore profitable niche markets and learn from producers investing in cheese, fluid milk and gelato. more

Iowa State University Extension and Outreach will offer a series of farmland leasing arrangements meetings across the state in late July and August, as well as a statewide virtual webinar on Aug. 19. The annual meetings are designed to address questions that landowners, tenants, agribusiness professionals and those involved in farmland ownership have about leasing farmland. more

Dredging of Lake LaVerne’s depths has revealed the Iowa State University lake’s role as a time capsule, hiding spot and trash can as university officials look to its future as a campus landmark. more