On Monday, elected officials representing Rock Island, Silvis, Moline and East Moline, as well as officials from Rock Island County and the Village of Milan, gathered with people from social service agencies to announce the December opening of an emergency winter shelter. The emergency winter shelter is slated to open Dec. 1 in Moline at the former Winnie's Place at 3906 25th St. The shelter ...

A historic railroad overpass near the Village of East Davenport remains closed and in disrepair more than eight years after its closure and more than three years after the city received a grant to replace it. A slow environmental review process and resident pushback to a modern concrete bridge that would cut off access to a brick road has delayed the bridge's replacement since the city ...

The Silvis Police and Fire Departments are holding their second annual food drive on Sunday, Nov. 22. From 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., community members can drop off food or cash donations at the Silvis Walmart at 1601 18th Avenue, according to a Silvis Police Facebook post. © 2026 Quad City Times, Davenport, Iowa. Visit www.qctimes.com. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

Powered by a statewide blue wave, Democrats won every county-wide elected office in Scott County where a Democrat was on the ballot. Voters in Scott County preferred Democrats for U.S. Senate, governor, Congress and all contested county races, but they did split on the state legislative races. Of the legislative districts entirely within Scott County, voters chose to send two Republicans and ...

Speculation that Republicans would call a special session to limit governor-elect Rob Sand’s powers was ruled out by House Speaker Pat Grassley Friday afternoon. House Republicans held a caucus meeting at the Capitol, where they chose their leadership team for the upcoming legislative session. Following the caucus, Grassley met with the press, where he told reporters that a special session was ...

Tara Gonzalez spent her Friday afternoon playing on the new accessible playground at Wilson Middle School with her daughter. The completion of the playground was a year in the making, Gonzalez said. The playground, made specifically for the school's Life Skills program, was approved in April by the Moline-Coal Valley School Board with community support. It was approved for no more than ...

Hundreds of high schoolers from the Quad-Cities rallied at River Bend Food Bank's warehouse for its 40th annual Student Hunger Drive with another record-breaking year. And students succeeded again; they collected 1,024,482 meals for those facing hunger in Eastern Iowa and Western Illinois. This beat last year's 926,393, which was already record-breaking, by 140,207. That record came as the ...