DES MOINES, IOWA (August 26, 2024) — Governor Kim Reynolds has announced Ryan Mulhall will serve as Executive Director of the Iowa Communications Network. Mulhall begins his new role with ICN on Friday, August 30, 2024.

CLIVE, IOWA (August 26, 2024) — The viral “Purchase Moore Hamann Bacon” promotion by the Iowa Pork Producers Association involving Iowa State Cyclone football players is back for the 2024 season, with more students joining the cast.

DIXON, IOWA (August 20, 2024) — On Saturday, September 14, 2024, 9-11AM, there will be a Monarch Migration Fun Run held at the Wapsi River Environmental Education Center in Dixon, Iowa.

The Fourth Annual Monarch Migration Fun Run will benefit the Friends of the Wapsi Center.

This self-timed 5K Trail Run will take you through the upland and bottomland forests and the prairies of the Wapsi River Center.

New faculty at Monmouth College include (from left) Alex Blum, Nicole Federov, Hannah Bradsahw, and Jaime Thissen

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (August 23, 2024) You may have heard that Monmouth College has a new president, as Patricia Draves has returned to the school where she taught chemistry from 2002-06 to lead the institution. Her inauguration ceremony will be held at 2PM, October 4, on Wallace Hall Plaza as part of Homecoming weekend festivities.

DAVENPORT, IOWA (August 23, 2024) — Silverstar Car Wash will host a ribbon cutting to celebrate their grand opening on Friday, September 6, 12PM. They are located at 1914 Division St in Davenport, Iowa.

DES MOINES, IOWA (August 23, 2024) — Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird has joined a sixteen-state coalition in a lawsuit challenging the Biden-Harris Administration’s amnesty scheme that authorizes hundreds of thousands of aliens to illegally enter the country.

COAL VALLEY, ILLINOIS (August 23, 2024) — We are celebrating Painted Dog Day on Saturday, August 24, at the Zoo, 10AM-4PM. Conservation Educators will be hosting activity tables at the 2 Painted Dog habitat overlook decks for you and your family to have fun while learning about this endangered species.

ROCK ISLAND, ILLINOIS (August 22, 2024) — Living to 100 years old is a milestone as rare as it is incredible. Last week, Friendship Manor held a “Centennial Celebration” to honor thirteen residents who met — or exceeded — this milestone in 2024, making five percent of the Rock Island retirement community’s resident population centenarians.

MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN (August 22, 2024) — Ryan Nickel, from Rock Island, Illinois, graduated from Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE) in Spring 2024. Nickel received a Bachelor of Science in Chemical and BioMolecular Engineering with Honors.

Students with a cumulative GPA of 3.70 or above are listed as having graduated with "High Honors." Undergraduate students with a cumulative GPA between 3.20 and 3.69 are listed as having graduated with "Honors."

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