Iowa employers shed 3,300 jobs in December, primarily in the areas of private services and manufacturing, new data from Iowa Workforce Development shows. Iowa’s total nonfarm employment in December ...

Tiffany Tauscheck, president and CEO of the Greater Des Moines Partnership, speaks at the podium surrounded by local leaders at the Partnership’s annual dinner. Image submitted by the Greater Des ...

America’s Cultivation Corridor, a statewide initiative focused on strengthening Iowa’s agricultural biosciences economy, announced Wednesday that Todd Frazier, vice president of U.S. marketing for ...

Polk County, in collaboration with local partners, is launching a multicultural food pantry in February, the first of its kind in Central Iowa. The Global Neighbors Multicultural Welcome Pantry will ...

Iowa health leaders urged legislative action and lifestyle changes Tuesday night in Des Moines at a presentation about cancer in Polk County, where 827 people die of cancer each year on average, ...

The University of Northern Iowa has received a five-year, $2.4 million grant from the Mellon Foundation to establish the UNI Humanities Hub, an initiative aimed at expanding paid internship ...

Nester Hosiery, a U.S. manufacturer of socks and accessory footwear, announced that it has acquired the majority of assets of Fox River Mills, a sock manufacturer based in Osage, Iowa that is closing ...

The photo above is one of the Des Moines Area Regional Transit Authority’s electric buses, which were introduced to the community in the fall of 2020 and went into service in early 2021. They were ...

Kellan Longenecker, global supply chain learning and development lead at General Mills Inc., has been elected the 2025 chair of the Iowa Association of Business and Industry’s board of directors.

Additional details and new renderings were released this week about the proposed conversion of Two Ruan Center from an office to multifamily building. Last fall, Ruan Inc. announced it was forming a ...

The redevelopment of former Maytag buildings in Newton is underway, with two buildings already renovated and a second phase of redevelopment beginning. Christensen The project, by Christensen ...

Sixteen building permits were issued for new commercial projects in the Des Moines area in June, including four for data centers at two Microsoft Inc. campuses in West Des Moines, a review shows. Two ...