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Greater Iowa City hosting coworking event at Big Grove Brewery

Greater Iowa City, Inc., is inviting business leaders to work alongside fellow professionals at Big Grove Brewery on Thursday, May 21. The open coworking event runs from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the brewery, 1225 S. Gilbert St., Iowa…

Sen. Ernst names Bloomsbury Farm as Small Business of the Week

U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), chair of the Senate Small Business Committee, has named Bloomsbury…

Bloomsbury Farm

Iowa awards $3.4 million in grants to support registered apprenticeship programs

Iowa Workforce Development has announced new grant awards for Registered Apprenticeship (RA) sponsors whose programs…

Iowa Workforce Development office unemployment

Students to showcase real-world business solutions at Eastern Iowa Airport in Junior Achievement 3DE event

This Wednesday, the Coe College Hangar at the Eastern Iowa Airport will be filled with…

Eastern Iowa Airport

Lydia Brown named president of Mercy Medical Center Foundation

Lydia Brown has been named the next president of the Mercy Medical Center Foundation, with…

Mercy Medical Center

Eastern Iowa Build My Future event to expose area students to construction field

More than 1,300 students from 55 schools in Eastern Iowa are slated to attend the…

Eastern Iowa Build my Future

Frontier Co-op receives award from IEDA for $30 million expansion

The Iowa Economic Development Authority (IEDA) board has approved an award to Frontier National Products…

Frontier Co-op

Amana brewery, Cedar Rapids vegetable farm recipients of Choose Iowa value-added grants

Several Corridor businesses are recipients of the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship’s Choose…

Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship logo

Iowa City VA to unveil expanded Decorah clinic with ribbon-cutting ceremony

The Iowa City VA Health Care System will host a ribbon-cutting Monday, April 28 on…

The Iowa City VA Medical Center, 601 Highway 6

UPDATED: Longtime Cedar Rapids jeweler Herman Ginsberg dies at 99

Emil Herman Ginsberg, an icon of the Cedar Rapids area jewelry community and a prominent…

Herman Ginsberg portrait

WATCH: Greater Iowa City Business Resource Center supports local business

Greater Iowa City, Inc. (Greater IC) has reaffirmed its commitment to local businesses and entrepreneurs…

Business Resource Center

Jennie Wunderlich: Inspiring local youth to grow and connect

Jennie Wunderlich knows her two strongest passions in life are logistics and youth. She also…

Jennie Wunderlich

Deborah Lindberg Gertsen: ‘Don’t wait for someday…’

Deborah Lindberg Gertsen works in a bank, but she is not a banker. She brings…

Deborah Lindberg Gertsen

UI professor awarded $600K NSF grant to accelerate drug development

A University of Iowa engineering professor is developing advanced computer models aimed at accelerating the…

UI professor of biomedical engineering Michael Schnieders.

Iowa’s labor, unemployment rate steady in March

Iowa’s seasonally adjusted unemployment and labor force participation rates held steady in March amid modest…

Iowa Workforce Development office unemployment

Cedar Rapids hospitals warn of potential phone scam

UnityPoint Health-St. Luke’s Hospital and Mercy Medical Center, both in Cedar Rapids, are warning the…

Hospital phone scam