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Iowa Legal Aid awarded $489,100 grant to expand pro bono services

The Legal Services Corporation (LSC) is awarding $489,100 to Iowa Legal Aid to expand its pro bono work. Iowa Legal Aid is one of 19 legal services organizations nationwide receiving a grant from LSC’s Pro Bono Innovation Fund. In total,…

Utilities, advocacy groups united in support for renewable energy development

Iowa utility companies and advocacy groups are largely united in their support of developing large-scale…

Nordex reopening West Branch

Iowa City, Coralville startups secure state funding for medical device, agriculture innovation

Three Iowa City and Coralville startups received state funding through the Iowa Economic Development Authority…

Iowa Economic Development Authority

Procter & Gamble to add 100 new jobs with $150M Iowa City expansion

Procter & Gamble is planning to expand its Oral-B Laboratories production capacity in Iowa City,…

Targeted goat grazing is gaining popularity, these businesses are taking the opportunity by the horns

An idea for a “cool retirement job” became a full-time endeavor in July for Tamra…

Charlie Fisher, owner of Falcon Farm Co. and an affiliate of Goats on the Go, checks on one of his goat herds at a jobsite in rural North Liberty. CREDIT ANNIE SMITH BARKALOW

Leadership Iowa announces 2025-26 participants, community hosts

Forty leaders from across Iowa have been selected to participate in the 2025-26 Leadership Iowa…

Iowa ABI

Airport Commission report: Proposed Alliant power plant poses safety risks to Eastern Iowa Airport

UPDATED WITH ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: A gas-fired power plant proposed by Alliant Energy should not be…

Alliant power plant proposed location

UI professor wins Lasker Award for cystic fibrosis research

Dr. Michael J. Welsh, a University of Iowa professor and Iowa native, has received the…

Dr. Michael J. Welsh, a University of Iowa professor and Iowa native, has received the 2025 Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award for his groundbreaking cystic fibrosis research that led to life-saving therapies.

Martin Equipment named Trimble Technology Outlet

Trimble Inc. has selected Martin Equipment as its newest Trimble Technology Outlet, the technology company…

Martin Equipment Cedar Rapids

ABI hosts Iowa Manufacturing Conference in October

The Iowa Association of Business and Industry (ABI) will bring together leaders across the manufacturing industry this…

ABI

Fairfax officials hear details of proposed Alliant gas-fired power plant

Attendees of a Fairfax City Council meeting Tuesday night, Sept. 9 offered decidedly mixed perspectives…

Alliant Energy typical combined cycle natural gas power plant

UI professor wins 2025 Horwitz Prize for muscular dystrophy research

Dr. Kevin Campbell, professor and chair of molecular physiology and biophysics at the University of…

Kevin Campbell muscular dystrophy

Eastern Iowa Airport director, Wings2Water founder Lenss receives Iowa Water Quality Award

Marty Lenss, director of the Eastern Iowa Airport and founder of Wings2Water, will receive the…

Wings2Water water quality award

Indigenous-led nonprofit seeks to create ‘resilience and innovation hub’ in Iowa City

An Indigenous-led nonprofit organization focused on environmental and social justice issues, as well as the…

A rendering of nonprofit Great Plains Action Society's urban Indigenous-led resilience and innovation hub, which is flanked to the east and west by Gilbert Court and Maiden Lane and to the south by East Benton Street in Iowa City. The proposed project spans approximately one acre.

AI reality check: Regional businesses find practical uses for artificial intelligence

Conducting an initial job interview remotely, Ben Elliott soon noticed a pattern. “It became pretty…

AI generated art from FREEPIK.

Iowa Manufacturing Podcast records live at CBJ conference, tackles workforce crisis

The Iowa Manufacturing Podcast brought its show directly to the manufacturing community with a special…

Wendy Mihm-Herold of iJAG addresses workforce development strategies during the Iowa Manufacturing Podcast's live recording at the CBJ Manufacturing Conference in Cedar Rapids