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Fareway Stores across Iowa are rolling out a new option for customers to purchase Powerball and Mega Millions tickets directly at the checkout counter – a first for the state.

Fareway to sell lottery tickets at check out lanes — a first in Iowa

Fareway Stores across Iowa are rolling out a new option for customers to purchase Powerball and Mega Millions tickets directly at the checkout counter – a first for the state. Through a new initiative called Easy Play, developed by the…

Newsmakers: Organizers cautiously optimistic about return of summer events

APR 12 Contracts had already been finalized for the Marion Arts Festival last March when…

Newsmakers: Eco Lips announces acquisition of Bug Soother

APR 12 Cedar Rapids-based organic lip care manufacturer Eco Lips is acquiring Simply Soothing, a…

Newsmakers: Return to the office?

MAR 29 For certain industries — manufacturing, food production, hospitality and health care, to name…

Newsmakers: Shopping ahead

MAR 1 With online grocery sales projected to reach $250 billion by 2025, Corridor stores…

Newsmakers: Banks rally to the rescue — again

FEB 1 Last year, the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Paycheck Protection Program issued 5.1 million…

Newsmakers: Residential rebound

JAN 11 Corridor residential developers and city planners enter 2021 cautiously optimistic after weathering months…

Local restaurants donate food to Souper Bowl fundraiser

The Domestic Violence Intervention Program (DVIP)’s 25th Anniversary Souper Bowl fundraiser will be held from…

Economic Alliance unveils local business list for last-minute gifts

The Cedar Rapids Metro Economic Alliance is offering shoppers a go-to list of places to…

Carlyle acquiring Cedar Rapids-based Involta

Global investment firm Carlyle announced Dec. 22 that funds managed by Carlyle have agreed to…

Involta data center

Integrated DNA Technologies wins Most Innovative New Product award

Coralville-based Integrated DNA Technologies won the Gold Award for Most Innovative New Product in the…

Long-planned NewBo housing project proceeding with new name, new developer

A previously-planned 110-unit housing development near Cedar Rapids’ NewBo neighborhood is moving ahead with a…

New ISU project will design 3D-printed housing for rural Iowa

The housing market has not kept up with demand for affordable housing in Iowa, leading…

Housing experts predict interest rate hikes, home price growth in 2022

Expect slower housing price appreciation, easing inflation and rising interest rates in 2022, according to…

Home sales

Casey’s closes acquisition of 40 Pilot stores

Casey’s General Stores, Inc. has announced the closing of the previously announced acquisition of 40…

Casey's General Store

Senators propose Iowa constitutional amendment ending marijuana prohibition

Democratic state senators Joe Bolkcom, Janet Petersen and Sarah Trone Garriot introduced a constitutional amendment…