Brad Vidmar

BURLINGTON – Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird got a special tour of the Western Smokehouse Partners facility in Burlington on Friday, as she enters her third year on the job

The Fort Madison Fire Department just wrapped up a productive year, and the public was able to learn more about the details of their work and future goals when the

The Lee County Board of Supervisors announced, upcoming changes to the proposed commercial wind and solar projects ordinance drafts will be coming, as well as another town hall meeting in

Funeral arrangements have been announced for Des Moines County Sheriff Chief Deputy Chad McCune

The Lee County Sheriff’s Office says this social media post that went viral this week is a scam and that the incidents alleged in the post did not occur. The sheriff’s office is asking community members to warn others about this post.

Crime in the region has been relatively low for several years now, and two of the bigger police departments in the area are hoping to keep that trend as they

The Burlington School District voted to create a new special education position with funding newly available after changes to the state's area education associations last year, and tended to other business during their meeting on Monday night.

Fire crews battled an overnight fire at a duplex located at 922 Ave. F in Fort Madison on Friday, Jan. 17, 2025. Investigators are working to determine the cause of the fire. (Fort Madison Fire Department)

Burlington Memorial Auditorium was likely the only place in town big enough to hold Anthony “D.J. Ant Bomb” Campbell's funeral, and nearly a thousand or more packed the auditorium to

It might have been Inauguration Day and Martin Luther King Jr. Day, but the Lee County Board of Supervisors still tended to several orders of business during its meeting on