Kalen McCain

Municipal police say they’ve arrested a man accused of carrying firearms onto school grounds, almost a week after two unloaded handguns were found under a tree near the Washington High School baseball field.

Washington County supervisors allowed a handful of public comments from advocates asking for a local civil rights ordinance Tuesday morning, but say they still don’t plan to take action on it for the time being.

City council members in Washington have completed the first reading of an ordinance amendment that legalizes fireworks on certain holidays, after years of banning the pyrotechnic rockets in town without exception. And they’re not happy about it.

Washington’s 78th Ridiculous Days were a blast last week. And despite unfavorable forecasts, there was no rain on the annual parade, nor any of the numerous other activities as community members gathered for the long-beloved town festival.

A new town celebration will mix Art Domestique’s annual En Plaine Air competition with a handful of new events focused on the arts, as community members seek to show off their designation as an Iowa Arts and Entertainment district.

Neither side seems to expect speedy resolution as case is referred to the state’s supreme court, which can either make a ruling in several months, or delegate the matter to the Iowa Court of Appeals. It’s the latest in a legal battle over polling place errors that allowed at least 70 invalid voters to cast a ballot in the school’s $15 million bond referendum in November.

Jackie Morgan has a solid medical background, working as a nurse practitioner for primary care clinics and urgent care floors in Iowa, where she’s lived for 15 years.

A Washington man is in custody after police say he stabbed another city resident in the back with a kitchen knife, the morning of June 5.

New information released Thursday morning: police say guns were found, not loaded, near WHS baseball field

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources issued an air quality warning across the state from Tuesday to Thursday morning, saying “thick smoke from Canadian wildfires” could prove hazardous to anyone getting active outdoors.

A handful of local advocacy groups are asking the Washington County Board of Supervisors to draft and vote on a resolution declaring the community’s civil rights standards, after state legislators removed the term “gender identity” from Iowa’s list of protected classes earlier this year.

U.S. Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks took a trip to Brenneman Pork in rural Washington County May 29, where she toured a pair of sow farms and a grain mill at the county’s top pork-producing company.

Contractors have repaired a drainage issue at Willow Pond, the modest water feature along the Kewash Nature Trail at the western edge of Washington.

Everything to know about the upcoming annual town festival in Washington, as it turns 78 years old.

Emergency response officials are warning about the potential impacts of legislation passed in the final moments of this year’s session and are asking Gov. Kim Reynolds to veto a provision.