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Office of Human Rights, City of Iowa City to host equal pay discussion

The Office of Human Rights, City of Iowa City, will host a discussion on equal pay and treatment from 10:30 a.m. to noon, Tuesday, May 19. “Equal Pay in Iowa: Legal Protections, Challenges and Pathways to Change It” will be…

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

QCR Holdings posts $25.8M in net income for Q1

QCR Holdings, Inc., the parent company of Cedar Rapids Bank & Trust (CRBT), announced net…

QCR Holdings

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

CBJ celebrates 2025’s Women of Influence

The 2025 Women of Influence are a group of incredibly multi-faceted and talented individuals. They…

2025 Women of Influence

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

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

The District: Czech Village and New Bohemia celebrates successes at annual ‘State of the District’ luncheon

The District: Czech Village & New Bohemia celebrated the successes of the past year and…

Julie Parisi State of the District

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

Grain Indemnity Fund assessment to end September

The Iowa Grain Indemnity Fund Board has voted to end assessments on grain sold to…

Grain silos

Field to Family’s online market returns weekly for the season

Field to Family will launch its 2025 weekly Online Market on Sunday, April 20, with…

Field to Family kicks off its Online Market season the week of Earth Day. Pictured: Online Market food drive in September 2023, hosted by CommUnity Crisis Services.

Holiday Inn Express opens new location in Marion

Holiday Inn Express has opened its new location in Marion, developers announced this week. The…

Holiday Inn Express Marion

$28M foreclosure ruling sends The Chauncey, other properties to auction

A series of high-profile downtown Iowa City developments are slated for a sheriff sale following…

The Chauncey, at 404 E. College St., is Iowa City's tallest building at 15 stories. The high-rise is home to Hotel Chauncey, FilmScene, SpareMe! Bowl & Arcade, fix! Coffee and several office and residential units.