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The Bettendorf Park Board has hired a consultant to study the city's three existing recreational/community centers and the feasibility of building a new center at Middle Park to replace them.

MUSCATINE — One day after President Donald Trump proposed tariffs against China, Iowa's new secretary of agriculture and other state leaders discussed how the decision could affect the agriculture industry.

The Brad Paisley concert scheduled for Saturday at the TaxSlayer Center in Moline has been canceled because of potential inclement weather in the Quad-City area.

Within an hour Tuesday morning, 87-year-old Margaret Pankey filed an order from a wholesale buyer in La Salle, Illinois, ate breakfast and sold a combined hunting/fishing license to a walk-in customer from Hampton.

Iowa Rep. Gary Mohr said he plans to take a deeper look into how tax increment financing, or TIF, is being used across the state and believes school districts should be removed from the equation.

Based on the current National Weather Service forecast, the area could receive 7 or more inches of snow Saturday, March 24. Snow is expected to arrive around midnight this evening, Friday, March 23 and begin to taper off sometime Saturday…

The city of Rock Island is declaring a snow emergency effective at 11 p.m., Friday, March 23. Once snow depth has reached 2 inches, parking is not allowed on any marked snow routes until the snow has been cleared. Vehicles…

Heavy, wet snow is expected across portions of eastern Iowa and northwest Illinois tonight into Saturday, with mainly rain further south.

The U.S. Navy on Thursday announced the command team for the USS Montana, a Virginia Class nuclear-powered attack submarine under construction and scheduled for commissioning as part of the Navy fleet in 2020.

The sources of refuse and industrial waste deposited on a Bettendorf farm during the 1950s into '70s were identified in an environmental assessment conducted by EnviroNET, Davenport. For a story in March 13 editions, the federal Environmental Protection Agency provided…