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Clickstop Named to Inc. Magazine’s 2025 Best Workplaces list

Clickstop has once again earned national recognition as one of Inc. magazine’s Best Workplaces for 2025, marking the fourth time the company has received the honor. The list, released June 17, highlights 514 companies across the U.S. that demonstrate exceptional…

Cedar Ridge Distillery’s Bagger Vodka marks $20,000 in donations to Iowa trails

Cedar Ridge Distillery has donated more than $20,000 to Iowa trails since it launched its…

Cedar Ridge

Mercy endoscopy unit recognized for quality, safety

The American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE) has recognized the endoscopy unit at Mercy Cedar…

Mercy Medical Center

Buff City Soap to open second Cedar Rapids location Thursday

Buff City Soap, a handmade retail franchise known for its plant-based soap and body products…

Buff City Soap Blairs Ferry

Hinson announces affordable housing funding for Meskwaki Nation

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is awarding $372,891 to the Sac…

Meskwaki Nation

Rising rental costs squeezing college graduates

College grads are getting ready to start their careers, but they’re finding soaring rental costs…

rental costs are rising

New McDonald’s coming to former bank site along First Avenue near Lindale Mall

Construction is under way on a new McDonald’s restaurant at the former site of a…

Construction work continues for a new McDonald's restaurant at 4520 First Ave. NE in Cedar Rapids. CREDIT RICHARD PRATT

Spring tourism up 144% in Iowa City compared to pandemic levels

Iowa City is leading the Corridor in tourism recovery in 2022, according to data from…

Downtown Iowa City’s Annual Sidewalk Sales. CREDIT IOWA CITY DOWNTOWN DISTRICT

Cargill RegenConnect expands to Iowa, encourages carbon sequestration

Cargill RegenConnect, a voluntary market-based regenerative agriculture program that helps producers access the carbon marketplace,…

Cedar Rapids raises lifeguard starting wage to attract more applicants

In an effort to recruit more lifeguards to work at Cedar Rapids municipal pools, the…

lifeguard jobs

UI professor named one of top 40 MBA professors under 40 by Poets & Quants

Stephen Courtright, professor of management and entrepreneurship at the Tippie College of Business at the…

Stephen Cortright

Iowa Utility Association’s annual development conference set for May 18

DEV2022, the Iowa Utility Association’s annual economic development conference, will be held this Wednesday, May…

Iowa Utility Association DEV2022

New flex warehouse coming to southwest Cedar Rapids

A new flex warehouse building under construction along Interstate 380 on the south side of…

flex warehouse

Ascent Therapy Group celebrates opening

Ascent Therapy Group held a ribbon cutting ceremony on May 13 to celebrate the opening…

St. Luke’s Hospital offering new prostate cancer imaging agent

UnityPoint Health – St. Luke’s Hospital Imaging/Nuclear Medicine Department is now offering the recent FDA…

UnityPoint Health - prostate cancer imaging agent Illuccix injection

Dollar General awards literacy grants to Cedar Rapids organizations

The Dollar General Literacy Foundation has awarded more than $10,000 to Cedar Rapids organizations to…

Dollar General