Gov. Chet Culver offered to help local officials in luring a new hydropower-generator manufacturing plant to the community during a stop in Keokuk Thursday morning.

The Keokuk School District is seeking public input on planning for district facility needs and has hired SVPA Architects of West Des Moines to lead the 10-year planning activity and assist in the development of a comprehensive plan.

For the past two years, the third-grade students in Debby Cargill's and Liz Strack's classes have decided to forfeit the typical holiday gift exchange and give to those who are in need.

Controversy already has begun to plague Lee County's planned consolidated emergency call and dispatch center, Lee Comm, despite still being five months from its anticipated startup date.

Burlington City Manager Doug Worden hopes it's an offer the Southeast Iowa Regional Planning Commission cannot refuse -- the sale of City Hall to the agency.

Emerging details of a spill into a stream that feeds the Mississippi River. From an Iowa Department of Natural Resources state press release: KEOKUK a ' A leak at the Roquette facility in Keokuk Wednesday resulted in corn starch slurry reaching Soap Creek.

As lawyer Steve Swan takes up the mantle of Keokuk city attorney, he has plenty of work lined up for him.

Several Mississippi River communities are providing opportunities to see the American bald eagle, also referred to as the "comeback bird" in action this weekend.

Donations are being received for emergency aid to the people of Haiti and will be hand delivered to the Good Samaritan Hospital of La Romana on January 23 and February 8. A mission team from First Baptist Church, of Keokuk will be traveling to La Romana, Dominican Republic, where they will be bringing assistance to the Good Samaritan Hospital.A ...

Thousands of citizens from the United States were in Haiti this week when the earthquake struck.

This It's Your Business story is the story of how one woman turned a loss into a win.

A second lake for the Water Treatment Plant is under consideration for the City of Bloomfield.

Posted on Jan 06, 2010 by orlanlove . While several states fight in court to keep Asian carp out of the Great Lakes, Iowa officials have resigned themselves to the slow spread of the troublesome fish through state waters.

A federal grand jury has indicted a Keokuk, Iowa, man on charges of intentionally burning an Illinois grocery store he had just bought to collect insurance money.

Tuesday, January 05, 2010 at 4:36 p.m. Read more: Local , Keokuk Iowa , Clark County , NEMO Drug Bust , KTVO , Meth Three men were arrested on drug charges after a drug bust in Clark County overnight.

After eight years guiding the city of Keokuk, Mayor David Gudgel will step down today and pass the honor on to mayor-elect Tom Marion.

Company officials said a fire that caused extensive damage to the Co-Generation steam unit inside the Roquette America plant here was the result of an equipment malfunction.

Authorities here have arrested a 20-year-old man, accusing him of firing a high-powered rifle several times at a home during an apparent drive-by shortly after he had an altercation with one of the residents.

Thursday, December 24, 2009 at 7:37 a.m. Read more: Local , Keokuk , Mayor Dave Gudgel A A KEOKUK, IA.

Keokuk firefighters were dispatched at 3:53 a.m. Monday to the 700 block of Blondeau Street on the report of a truck on fire, said Assistant Fire Chief Mike Maerz.