Michelle O'Neill

A golfer from Cedar Rapids with ties to the Quad Cities has won a high honor from the PGA Tour. Today, the tour and Southern Company announced Zach Johnson is this year's recipient of the Payne Stewart Award. 

Because of the pandemic, Moline is offering employees extra incentives to retire to help make up for declining revenue.

Moline detectives are asking for help finding a hit and run driver after the death of a 20-year-old man.

Early Tuesday morning, around 12:30, a police officer found the man's body lying on the pavement in the 3600 block of John Deere Road.

During Monday's strong thunderstorm, a fallen tree branch landed on electrical wires along 38th Street in Rock Island, IL. WVIK FM Operations Manager, Dave Garner, was watching from the radio station across the street when the transformer "popped" and ignited. 

The number of COVID-19 cases in the Quad Cities continues to grow, and three people have died since late last week. 

Local governments, health care providers, businesses, and others are renewing efforts to slow the spread of COVID-19 in the Quad Cities.