ROCK ISLAND, Ill. — Bob Motz is no newcomer to admiring the grandeur of bald eagles, our national symbol of strength and freedom. While ice skating as a boy with his father on a frozen canal, he began ...

BEAVER SPRINGS — If the local U.S. Geological Survey notices an unusual seismic reading on its Richter Scale on Friday night, there’s a perfectly good explanation. The King of Quake is back in town.

Apr. 11—It's a little less than a year away, but people are already getting excited for the total eclipse set for April 8, 2024. In Norwalk they are calling it the 'solar-bration' of a lifetime when a ...

Ask Bob Motz a question about monarch butterflies or bald eagles or forest wildflowers, and he will drop everything he is doing and gently and enthusiastically explain what he knows about these ...

NORWALK - The 39th annual Kelly Services Night Under Fire takes place this Saturday at Summit Motorsports Park in Norwalk, featuring a night full of drag racing and fireworks. This year's show is ...

BEAVER SPRINGS— Bob Motz gave fans a reason to cheer Friday night as he returned to Beaver Springs Dragway after a two-year absence with his King of Quake jet engine-powered truck. “We actually opened ...

Biology professor Brian Peer has braved Texas rattlesnakes and Alaskan bears to research and write more than 50 journal articles about birds. But it’s been one little northern cardinal at a backyard ...

A painting by Joanne Motz Heritier, which is now hanging at the Southside Art League’s Off Broadway Gallery in an exhibition with her brother, Robert Motz. The show runs through Aug. 31. As brother ...

Motz is a Rock Island native who got his love of nature from his dad, a dentist. When Bob was in fifth grade, his dad piled him into their Nash Rambler, and they drove all the way to Tennessee, ...