Simpson College announced Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and educator Nikole Hannah-Jones will visit campus on Thursday, Jan. 29, to receive the George Washington Carver Medal for the 2025–2026 ...

Brent Blum, who has led name, image and likeness efforts for Iowa State Athletics since 2022, announced he is stepping down as executive director of the We Will Collective after three years, Cyclone ...

Temple Real Estate has entered into a development agreement with the city of Urbandale to build a 9,886-square-foot mixed-use building on Plum Drive. The Urbandale City Council approved the ...

Des Moines will host the U.S. Navy Blue Angels as part of the 2027 Iowa Air Show: Fields of Thunder, marking the return of a large-scale air show to Central Iowa for the first time since 1991.

A recent review of Business Record archives found at least 552 executive leadership changes have happened in the Des Moines area since 2020. One-third of those changes, 211, occurred between 2024 and ...

Top Trumps, a company that produces Monopoly boards specific to cities and states, was at the Ruan Center on Tuesday to unveil the latest Des Moines version. The company visited Des Moines earlier in ...

Officials at the Des Moines Area Regional Transit Authority are beginning to prepare for changes to its system following the approval of its redesigned network this week. The DART commission voted ...

The Altoona City Council has taken another step toward bringing a Wisconsin company to the metro and expanding the growing industrial area on the city’s north side. The city council on Monday approved ...

Chuck Magro, pictured, joined Corteva Agriscience Nov. 1 as its CEO and a member of the board of directors. Based in Delaware, Corteva formed after the 2019 merger of Dow and DuPont and operates labs ...

Emily Wood is special projects editor at Business Record. She covers nonprofits and philanthropy, HR and leadership, and diversity, equity and inclusion.

The Iowa State University Research Park, founded in 1987 as a startup hub to commercialize university-developed intellectual property, has grown to 145 companies and around 2,500 employees. Sanders ...

After becoming one of the early adopters of a farming practice that would forever change animal agriculture, the Faaborg family in Radcliffe is swapping its concentrated animal feeding operation for ...