North Scott will host Special Olympic athletes on Saturday, Jan. 24. Athletes from Clinton, Dubuque, Jackson, Muscatine, and Scott counties will compete in the East Iowa Area Special Olympics Basketball competition at North Scott Junior High. more

At Scott Campbell’s first Eldridge City Council meeting as mayor, he made his first official list of appointments. But as of Jan. 12, one role remained unfilled. more

Mayor Travis Volrath named fresh faces to four Princeton boards at the first city council meeting of the year Thursday, Jan. 8. more

The American Farm Bureau Federation, along with soybean and specialty crop farm organizations, has asked congressional leadership for economic support to “fill in the gap of remaining losses for both field and specialty crop farmers.” more

States are passing laws to prevent artificially intelligent chatbots, such as ChatGPT, from being able to offer mental health advice to young users, following a trend of people harming themselves after seeking therapy from the AI programs. more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Education, for now, is backtracking on plans to garnish wages and seize tax refunds of student loan borrowers in default, the department announced Friday. more

Iowa State University Extension and Outreach’s Urban Agriculture Program will host a public information session and forum titled “Water Access for Urban Farming” on Friday, March 27, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. The event will be held in Waterloo at the ISU Extension and Outreach Black Hawk County office, and is presented in partnership with Waterloo Water Works and the University of Northern Iowa Center for Energy and Environmental Education. more

The SEISTA (SouthEastern Iowa String Teachers Association) Honor Orchestra was held at Bettendorf High School on Saturday, Jan. 17. more

View the Scott County Sheriff's report from the Jan. 21 NSP! more

View the Eldridge Police report from the Jan. 21 NSP! more

Each winter, the North Scott girls basketball program brings the community together for their annual Cart Race event, helping to fill up the North Scott Food Pantry. more

Peregrine falcon reproduction in Iowa “likely remains stable” following successful reintroduction efforts in the 1990s, but the Iowa Department of Natural Resources said monitoring is still warranted due to the threat of the bird flu on the recovering bird population. more

Progress on property tax reform leads the concerns of Iowa state lawmakers, who returned to the capitol for the start of a new session Monday. more

Anyone who might have thought passions around the Eldridge Community Center cooled over the last few weeks was sorely mistaken, as some Eldridge residents and other ECC patrons attended Monday’s city council meeting to protest what they saw as the hasty closure of the center in December. more

At Monday’s Eldridge City Council committee of the whole meeting, council members got to meet the six individuals who would like to join their ranks. more

Brad Burt could talk about the technology of car washes all day. more

Three residents of Walcott have expressed interest in the city’s open council seat. more

Scott County Treasurer Tony Knobbe will not run for reelection at the end of his term this fall. more

A new dinner spot is headed for Eldridge. more

Leaders of the Iowa Senate Natural Resources and Environment Committee centered their remarks Monday around water quality policies and improvements for the state. more