County commissioners on Monday extended a moratorium on data center development for another year while reopening questions about whether past wind-energy regulations were adopted through proper public ...

Former commissioner Dan Holub was selected Thursday to fill the 4th District commissioner vacancy created by the death July 10 of Dave Crofoot. Once formally named by the governor, he will serve until ...

A new format for state Babe Ruth/Cal Ripken baseball tournaments was tested over the weekend in Hillsboro. Instead of separate locations for each age division, the under-10, under-12, and under-16 ...

Finding their ‘big voice’ “I’ll boil your gizzards for my supper!” Izzy Schumacher – a/k/a Captain Hook – will growl later this week in a children’s theater produc ...

Pioneer Bluffs will sponsor its annual Day of the Cowboy starting with an ice cream social at 6:30 p.m. Saturday. A program about the cow horse — including a guest speaker and panel of experts — will ...

Daffy, the biggest duck, led the way, waddling as fast as she could. Plop! A frog flew up out of the grass in front of her and landed in the pond. The ducks stopped in their tracks. “What’s in our ...

County officials are weighing a fiberoptic project on farmland in the southwest corner of the county, slow-walking the proposal to mollify public anxiety about potential connection to data centers.

The worst effect of excessive fascination with property taxes is that local governments, especially cities that provide utilities, avoid property tax increases by imposing more regressive taxes, like ...

Among the towns, only Florence, Lehigh, and Ramona said they would keep their tax rates at the revenue-neutral rate or lower. Florence went one step further, declaring it would not exceed a property ...

Despite fears, county voting machines can’t be hacked. By CLARA GERMANI. Staff writer. In spite of national anxiety about hacked voting machines — including assertions by a fo ...

A former Peabody City Council member was formally charged Tuesday with attempted first-degree murder. Alan D. Gillen, 62, was arrested at 7:42 p.m. Thursday by a sheriff’s deputy and booked into ...

The season of candidate forums is upon Marion County. The Record will sponsor a candidate forum for the contested 4th District county commissioner seat and the 70th District state representative seat ...