Students at Thurgood Marshall Learning Center in Rock Island will study by E-Learning tomorrow so crews can repair water service to the building. An email from the Rock Island – Milan School District ...

Colorado-based OmniTRAX, one of North America’s fastest growing privately held rail management companies, recently signed a long-term lease to create Chicago’s largest multi-modal logistics hub.

Sweeping changes to immigration policy and increased deportations under President Donald Trump’s second term has caused fear among immigrants living in Iowa.  Many immigrant families have generational ...

The Iowa Senate has passed a bill that would let Iowans who are legally allowed to carry firearms have guns in their locked ...

“We are so excited to be in Montana for 2026,” said Meg Allen of the River to Rails Jamboree. Now in its 17th year, the Jamboree is not a race or a competition. It will have beautiful, organized rides ...

The events surrounding the murders of Deputies Gabriel Ramirez and Michael Hislope mark the deadliest 24-hour period in the Christian County Sheriff’s Office’s history, and one of the deadliest in ...

The Rock island City Council approved amending a Tax Increment Financing (TIF) district in the Rock Island Regional Port District. The city established the North 11th Street TIF in 2000, then ...

If you've always wanted to live near Chicago, but you don't want to move to the city proper, this fun suburb might just be for you and your family.

Iowa Interstate Railroad (IAIS) has released a documentary offering an inside look at its evolution—from what the Railroad Development Corporation (RDC)-owned Class II described on social media as “it ...

In 1950, GM created the Aerotrain to revolutionize the train industry. But several issues made it awful for passengers to use, and it didn't last long.

“My best memory so far was sharing wine and singing “City of New Orleans” with three strangers — two German tourists and a fellow American — in the cafe car while riding Amtrak’s City of New Orleans ...

Railroads, if you ask me, were the most consequential economic and technological innovation in American history, and without a doubt were the most important component in aiding the expansion of the ...