Business News

Cedar Rapids-based McGrath Family of Dealerships will acquire the Toyota of Iowa City dealership, effective April 1.

QHC Facilities, which owns eight skilled-nursing facilities and two assisted-living centers in Iowa, including Crestview Acres in Marion, filed for bankruptcy protection in late December.

A white oak on track to be Iowa’s largest of its species is in the area where Navigator CO2 Ventures wants to lay an underground CO2 pipeline. The 175-year-old tree is in Lee County, 50 yards from the Mississippi River.

Sixty percent of Iowa business leaders still say they believe sales will grow in this year’s second quarter, according to a survey from the Iowa Association of Business and Industry -- but that’s a drop from 76 pecent who expressed such confidence for 2022’s first three months.

The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship’s cancellation of poultry events has the potential to affect upcoming county and state fair exhibitions, depending on how long the disease plagues the state this year.

GOP says changes needed to modernize, put focus on re-employment. The legislationm they say, updates a system from the 1930s when unemployment compensation was the sole safety net for out-of-work Iowans.

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