Kalen McCain

A community garden in Washington designed to build local food security and education will hold its first major event this weekend, inviting anyone interested to a two-hour “field day” where volunteers will discuss a new pollinator garden.

“The feeling I got after giving myself a good haircut, I wanted to give that feeling to other people,” said Jesse Quinones of Off the Top Barber Shop in Washington.

An annual audit of the city of Washington’s financial statements from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2024 turned up few red flags when it was published this month.

The Iowa Judges Association last month announced Washington-based judge Michael Mullins as the winner of its most prestigious annual recognition.

County supervisors last week formally approved a date for a long-discussed levy that would fund local emergency medical services and emergency communications infrastructure, setting the ballot issue’s election date on Nov. 4, 2025.

Statewide reports from the USDA show a considerable surplus of topsoil and subsoil moisture in Southeast Iowa for the first time in recent memory, as excessive rainfall washes through Iowa fields.

With nearly seven decades’ worth of Washington County Fair livestock auctions under his belt, longtime auctioneer Keith Murphy facilitated his final sale Friday, July 25.

Washington area livestock exhibitor Tyler Lukavsky will participate in the Governor’s Charity Steer Show Aug. 9, a decades-old state fair tradition that raises money for Ronald McDonald House charities.

Contractors began preparations for an asphalt overlay on Avenue B in Washington week, in a project city officials say will drastically improve a street long plagued by patchy pavement, bumpy rides and scattered gravel.

WASHINGTON – Washington County Outreach’s new director, Joe Williams, has made a handful of changes since starting the job earlier …

As Highland and WACO’s shared superintendent Ken Crawford retires, a new face is stepping in to fill his role: Spencer Lueders.

The Washington County Fair is in full swing, and with all the activity on the fairgrounds, it’s easy to miss any number of big changes, little victories or unexpected surprises.

A deceased Washington resident’s donation has helped fund renovations to a Scouting America dining hall in Central City.

Jaron Rosien was sentenced at a hearing Friday morning, two-and-a-half years after he was accused of sexually assaulting a man at the bar owned by Washington’s former mayor.

A bald eagle struck by traffic near Riverside over the holiday weekend has been humanely euthanized, according to volunteers at The Raptor Advocacy, Rehabilitation & Education Group, an area nonprofit that sought to rescue the animal.