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MidWestOne Bank named Top Workplace in Iowa, Minnesota

MidWestOne Bank has earned recognition as one of Iowa and Minnesota’s Top Workplaces for 2025 by the Des Moines Register and Minnesota’s Star Tribune. The designation reflects employee feedback collected through surveys issued by Energage, which administers the Top Workplaces…

Corridor businesses, leaders named Prometheus Awards finalists

Businesses and influential figures throughout the Corridor are finalists for the 2022 Prometheus Awards, presented…

2022 TAI Prometheus Awards

PepsiCo, ADM agree to regenerative agriculture partnership

PepsiCo and Archer-Daniels-Midland (ADM) agreed to a seven and a half year strategic commercial agreement…

Regenerative agriculture.

Steel Therapeutics completes first steps for Fizurex FDA approval

North Liberty-based Steel Therapeutics, an early stage pharmarceutical company focused on increasing access to compounded…

Steel Therapeutic's first product candidate is Fizurex, a disposable wipe.

Honkamp Krueger acquires Gosling & Company

Honkamp Krueger & Co., P.C. (HK) will acquire Gosling & Company, P.C.’s Cedar Falls and…

Honkamp Krueger

IDT product expansion helps screen new drug candidates

Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT) has expanded customization options for its unique custom CRISPR gRNA libraries…

Integrated DNA Technologies. CREDIT IDT

Jones Regional Medical Center receives $655,000 for improvements from USDA

UnityPoint Health – Jones Regional Medical Center (JRMC) in Anamosa has received $655,000 in grants…

Coral Ridge Mall set to welcome more retailers

A candy and sweets shop, clothing outlet, jewelry store and fitness center are joining Coral…

Coral Ridge Mall first opened in 1998.

Two Cedar Rapids child care projects receive state grants

Child care projects at TrueNorth Companies and To The Rescue in Cedar Rapids could create…

Child care program

Kirkwood, University of Iowa announce nursing partnership

Kirkwood Community College and the University of Iowa (UI) will be finalizing a new partnership…

Creighton Rural Mainstreet Economic Index again falls below growth neutral

The Creighton University Rural Mainstreet Index (RMI) fell for the fifth straight month in September,…

Ernie Goss Creighton University Mainstreet Index

Iowa unemployment increases slightly to 2.6% in August

Iowa’s unemployment rate increased from 2.5% to 2.6% in August with 1,300 Iowans leaving the…

Iowa unemployment

GreenState Credit Union lays off 42 employees

GreenState Credit Union is reducing its workforce by cutting 42 jobs, effective immediately. The 42…

Medical lab renovations among University of Iowa plans approved

A series of items were approved by the Iowa Board of Regents Sept. 15, including…

The second floors of the Medical Laboratories Building and Medical Research Center will be renovated to undergo research in pediatric cancer and epilepsy.

Costume shop in downtown CR business closing

Jacob and Kimberly Cowger, owners of Balloons, Etc. & The Costume Emporium, 420 Second Ave.…

Costume Emporium

‘Next Nature’ mural debuts in Cedar Rapids’ Kingston Village

In late August, Scott Takes, a local artist and owner of the Underground Art Studio,…

Next Nature mural