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News Oct. 3, 2016 5:55 pm3288d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A family-owned southwest Iowa bottling company has closed on a transaction with Coca-Cola Co. to handle distribution …
Weather Oct. 1, 2016 11:01 am3290d ago
United Fire Group employees will return Monday to the company’s headquarters complex in downtown Cedar Rapids, a far cry from …
Weather Sep. 30, 2016 6:24 pm3291d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – Owners of bars and restaurants in downtown Cedar Rapids were moving quickly Friday to open their doors …
News Sep. 29, 2016 6:13 pm3292d ago
Diversity Focus, an organization formed 11 years ago to promote diversity, cultural awareness and inclusion in the Corridor, is ceasing …
Weather Sep. 28, 2016 5:44 pm3293d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – Faced with potential flooding from a rapidly rising Cedar River, two Cedar Rapids hotels took decidedly different …
News Jan. 31, 2022 3:44 pm1342d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS — Eight years after the raging Cedar River slammed through the front windows of the former Smulekoff’s Furniture …
News Sep. 27, 2016 6:12 pm3294d ago
Weakness among manufacturers linked to agriculture and energy continue to weigh on regional economic conditions, according to a monthly survey …
News Sep. 26, 2016 4:43 pm3295d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – Rockwell Collins has been awarded a contract to provide touch-screen flight displays for all five flight deck …
News Sep. 26, 2016 4:39 pm3295d ago
Unemployment rates rose last month in the Cedar Rapids and Iowa City metropolitan statistical areas, mirroring an uptick at the …
News Sep. 26, 2016 3:13 pm3295d ago
Flexsteel Industries plans to close a 120-year-old plant in Dubuque in December 2017 and has not decided where it will …
Business News Sep. 16, 2016 5:40 pm3305d ago
Three commercial buildings at or near the corner of First Avenue and 29th Street NE in Cedar Rapids are getting …
News Sep. 16, 2016 4:32 pm3305d ago
Nutrition supplement company planning major expansion By George C. Ford, The Gazette The Iowa Economic Development Authority Board on Friday …
News Sep. 16, 2016 2:04 pm3305d ago
If you see a helicopter flying fairly low over power lines in Eastern Iowa over the next month, there will …
News Sep. 15, 2016 6:45 pm3306d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS — The wraps came off CRST Center, CRST International’s namesake 11-story, $37 million office tower along the Cedar …
Agriculture Sep. 14, 2016 4:35 pm3307d ago
The average value of a good acre of Iowa farmland continues to decline in the face of continuing low corn …