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The Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays are the busiest travel times at the Des Moines International Airport. Officials expect more than 147,000 travelers will pass through the airport in November, continuing the trend they’ve seen of …

You could hear it starting before League or Rural Voters Executive Director Niel Ritchie issued what amounts to a rallying cry for rural America: “Sometimes to win a fight, you have to start a fight,” …

The phrase that heads this piece is the slogan used by the Olympic Games, and translates from Latin to mean “faster, higher, stronger.” It could be applied to efforts that are under way now by …

Barilla’s pasta-making plant in Ames is helping the Italian company eat up market share in the United States and throughout the world.

The $135 million plant, stark white in color and the tallest feature for …

Two years ago, Chad Robinson was facing a tough job market as he began interviewing for his first job out of college.

By November, after interviewing with about 10 companies, the Purdue University senior was …

The Federal Reserve Board will hold interest rates low for a longer period than most Americans are predicting and the U.S. economy will grow faster than expected over the next 12 months as a result, …

In eight years, Jim Slife has turned around an unprofitable commercial printing operation and added to it a niche publishing business that handles nearly a dozen magazines, including the Iowan, the state’s best known travel …

Liberty Bank FSB said it agreed to buy StateFed Financial Corp. for about $17.6 million in cash, ending several years of on-again and off-again attempts by Liberty and other financial institutions to purchase the bank.…

The Iowa Public Employees Retirement System, the state’s largest investment fund, said it fired Putnam Investments following allegations the mutual fund manager had engaged in improper trading.

IPERS Chief Executive Donna Mueller said IPERS had …

If all goes according to Doug Vander Weide’s plan, come October 16, 2004 he’ll be in Hawaii. He doesn’t intend to relax on the beach, however. Instead, he will swim 2.5 miles; ride his bike …