Update Rock Island is a segment at City Council meetings given by Mayor Mike Thoms focusing on news in Rock Island. The video segment from the meeting is available on YouTube. Read on...

Refuse and recycling collection will be on the normal collection schedule during the week of the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday. Read on...

If you just can't wait for new releases from your favorite fiction authors, good news! The new Best Sellers Club at Rock Island Public Library could help you read those new titles earlier. Read on...

Since few things go better with cozy wintertime reading than a hot cup of cocoa, Rock Island Public Library will launch its 2021 Books Like Us Winter Reading Challenge with a Curbside Cocoa Kickoff on January 8. Read on...

On December 21, 2020 Quad City area law enforcement partners, hosted a press conference to discuss the issue of stolen vehicles in the Quad Cities and announced a new initiative, Lock It Down, QC. Read on...

The Governor of Illinois has moved our region into Tier 2 Resurgence Mitigations beginning January 15th and all programming will resume immediately. Read on...

Beginning Wednesday, April 15, 2020, 35th Street north of 7th Avenue will be closed due to construction on the campus of Augustana College. Read on...