In 2024-25, WQPT (the QC PBS station) received $846,207 from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, accounting for 54% of its annual budget. General Manager Dawn Schmitt said cuts will leave the station with just five full-time staff come Jan. 1. WQPT, a public media service of Western Illinois University, Moline, is not considering cutting the number of hours they are on the air, which is 24 hours a day.

Equine herpesvirus can spread easily and debilitate an animal. A recent outbreak canceled several events across the country, but animal health authorities say cases seem to be easing.

The Quad Cities Community Foundation announced Tuesday, December 16th, that the Quad Cities Housing Council (QCHC) will receive its 2025 Transformation Grant ($300,000 over three years), in support of the region’s first large-scale, multi-agency affordable housing development initiative.

In her short life so far, 10-year-old Milan C. Ellis has already moved six times. And she wrote about her new experiences in her debut children’s book, “The Adventures of a Military Kid.”

The massive tax and spending law signed in July halts a federal incentive for residential solar, and homeowners and installers are hurrying to complete projects before the end of the year. Industry experts say there are other ways to cut costs like "group buys."

A local documentary following a musical production by the Penguin Project of the Quad Cities is airing on PBS station WQPT this month.

Thirty-nine incarcerated students in the Augustana Prison Education Program [APEP] are pursuing their undergraduate degrees at the East Moline Correctional Center [EMCC].

As temperatures drop dangerously low this weekend, the city of Rock Island is partnering with Project NOW to open an emergency overnight shelter at the Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center, 630 9th St., Rock Island.

When the newly expanded Lincoln-Irving Elementary School in Moline opens in 2027, consolidated with Willard School, it will be called Robert Ontiveros Elementary School -- honoring the life and legacy of the influential founder of Group O, nationally respected business leader, and lifelong advocate for the Floreciente neighborhood where he grew up.

The Rock Island City Council is considering rate increases for refuse, sewer, stormwater, and water services to address negative fund balances and fund ongoing infrastructure projects.