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St. Luke’s Hospital, UIHC among top performing hospitals for heart attack treatment

UnityPoint Health – St. Luke’s Hospital and UIHC Medical Center Downtown have each received the American College of Cardiology’s NCDR Chest Pain ̶ MI Registry Platinum Performance Achievement Award for 2025. The two Corridor hospitals were among 323 hospitals nationwide…

Corridor Media Group to launch statewide leaders magazine

In 2022, the Corridor Business Journal published its first iteration of Corridor Leaders 250, an…

Iowa leaders 500

Stamats sells Meetings Today brand to TPMG

Stamats Communications, Inc. has announced the sale of its group meetings and events media brand,…

Meetings Today logo

Honkamp expands Midwestern presence with acquisition of The Brems Group

Honkamp, P.C., a leading Midwest CPA and business advisory group, is set to expand its…

Honkamp

UI leads $6M NSF-funded initiative to combat severe weather in the Midwest

The University of Iowa has secured a $6 million, four-year grant from the National Science…

A sensor peeks over the top of some corn stalks

Timberline announces retirement, succession plans for CEO Pientok

Timberline Manufacturing, a Marion-based electronics contract manufacturer and local employee-owned company, announced retirement plans July…

Tom Pientok Timberline

Linn supervisors cast final vote for new wind energy ordinance

Even as the Linn County Board of Supervisors approved the third and final reading July…

Wind energy turbine

Former Collins CEO Kelly Ortberg named new Boeing CEO

Boeing announced July 31 that its board of directors has elected Robert K. “Kelly” Ortberg,…

Kelly Ortberg Rockwell Collins Boeing

North Liberty building damaged in overnight explosion

A North Liberty building sustained significant damage after a late-night explosion. At 11 p.m. on…

Damage to two bays is evident at 309 Herky St. in North Liberty. The explosion happened late Monday night.

Kirkwood, UI partner on Medical Laboratory Science degree

Kirkwood Community College and the University of Iowa (UI) are partnering to offer a four-year…

UI Medical Laboratory Science program

Linn County stresses landowner protection in approving second reading of wind ordinance

Even as the Linn County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously July 29 to approve the…

Wind turbines

Hintz Biomedical, HMUIRL take top prize for Iowa JPEC Summer Track pitch

A health care startup that recently took top prize at an Iowa JPEC spring competition…

Lily Hintz, of Hintz Biomedical, gives her pitch at the Startup Incubator Summer Track Launch Day in the Black Box Theatre in the Iowa Memorial Union on July 26, 2024, in Iowa City, Iowa.

Cedar Rapids family provides $1 million donation to renovate Mercy downtown emergency room

Mercy Medical Center has announced a $1 million donation from a Cedar Rapids couple to…

Mercy Cedar Rapids downtown emergency room renovation

Regionalism holds key to economic development, Corridor leaders say

On July 25 local business leaders gathered at the Hotel at Kirkwood for the Corridor…

Aspen and John Lohman accept a celebratory trophy at the CBJ's Future of the Corridor event, July 26, 2024. The event celebrated the CBJ's 20th anniversary and featured talks on the region's future.

St. Luke’s hosts ribbon-cutting for new Marion ER

Leaders from UnityPoint Health-St. Luke’s Hospital and the city of Marion hailed the soon-to-open St.…

St. Luke's Marion ER treatment room

TIME names Alliant Energy a Best Midsize Company in America

Alliant Energy was recently listed on TIME’s inaugural list of America’s Best Midsize Companies for…

Alliant Energy