Erik Hogstrom

SHERRILL, Iowa — Jeff Streinz said an annual holiday event at a Dubuque County residential camp for people with disabilities produces the same feeling in him year after year.

An American writer who cofounded the publishing firm Random House and was a frequent television guest appeared at an event 60 years ago in Dubuque.

DYERSVILLE, Iowa — An iconic patch of Dubuque County farmland will amp up the wattage to showcase star power next summer.

DYERSVILLE, Iowa -- Major League Baseball players will emerge from a Dubuque County cornfield for the third time in six years next summer.

Accustomed to spellbinding rides through the dazzling lights of Dubuque’s Louis Murphy Park, Jared Krow knew the task ahead when the calendar switched from summer to fall.

EARLVILLE, Iowa — Matt Lahr said auctioneering came naturally to him. It was in his blood.

The warm months spent disassembling snowmaking equipment and painting ski lifts are coming to an end at Sundown Mountain Resort, where the clock is ticking toward the busy season.

SHULLSBURG, Wis. — A reinvention of a fourth-generation business brought world attention to a cheese factory on a corner in rural Lafayette County.

Cross the Mississippi River in this area and the story is the same: Lines for food assistance are getting longer.

Kate Mulgrew said she felt compelled to return to the Dubuque area this week.