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Aaron Wiese was named Hy-Vee’s next CEO, effective Oct. 1, the West Des Moines-based retail chain announced late Wednesday.

Iowa agriculture groups are calling on President Joe Biden to lift tariffs on fertilizer products, which the groups say are driving up prices and hurting farmers and consumers.

The Federal Reserve on Wednesday raised its benchmark interest rate by a hefty three-quarters of a point for a second straight time in its most aggressive drive in three decades to tame high inflation.

The risk management and insurance program, to begin autumn 2023, will be the only such program Iowa, the UI says.

Some 60 percent of businesses that responded to the Marion Economic Development Corp.’s latest Community Index said, despite continuing worker shortages locally and nationwide, they’d hired more employees during this past second quarter.

One of the key themes that emerged during the second-quarter earnings call Tuesday for Collins Aerospace’s global parent company was the rest of 2022 will be “a hill to climb.”

Meatpacker tells the nation’s high court that companies “will not be so eager to willingly aid the federal government in a crisis” if those rulings that favor workers’ families are allowed to stand.

Iowa Republican U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson talked inflation, transportation and drug costs with small business owners during a stop in Vinton on Monday.