Iowa’s unemployment rate remains at 4.1% in August
Iowa's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate remained steady at 4.1% in August, staying above the U.S. employment rate which sits at 5.2%.
Across the board, Iowa's...
Travero’s new Logistics Park facility offers versatile, affordable transportation options
In recent years, small to medium-sized businesses and manufacturers in Eastern Iowa have faced a series of transportation and warehousing challenges.
A lack of access...
Welcoming Wings to be featured at Downtown Farmers Market
The welcoming wings currently scattered around Cedar Rapids will all come together for a final showing Saturday morning at the Downtown Farmers Market.
Shoppers will...
Indian Creek Nature Center’s Creekside Forest School now open
The new nature-based preschool at the Indian Creek Nature Center (ICNC), the Creekside Forest School (CFS), is now open for students, with a ribbon-cutting...
Raytheon to require COVID-19 vaccinations from U.S. employees
Raytheon Technologies is mandating all U.S. employees receive the COVID-19 vaccine or risk disciplinary action including termination. Raytheon is the parent company of Cedar...
Steel Therapeutics successfully closes its seed financing round
Steel Therapeutics — an early stage pharmaceutical company focused on increasing access to compounded drug therapies — announced Tuesday that it had closed its...
SBA enhances COVID Economic Injury Disaster Loan program
U.S. Small Business Administration Administrator Isabella Casillas Guzman has announced major enhancements to the COVID Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) program, a federal disaster...
Iowa Tourism Office offers incentives and resources for travel
The Iowa Tourism Office launched the Iowa Farm & Fun Passport, which provides travelers the opportunity to discover farm experiences and family fun across the...
Gov. Reynolds announces broadband grant recipients of $97.5M investment
Thirty-nine recipients have been awarded a total of $97,500,000 million for broadband infrastructure as part of the Empower Rural Iowa Broadband Grant Program.
The Office...