A Fort Dodge barista got the surprise of his life when he was escorted to the parking lot at his worksite and found that some of his customers had joined together to buy him a car. Taylor Bratland has worked at the Starbucks inside the Target in Fort Dodge for about...
A coffee shop created nearly five decades ago to provide work for an Iowa City man with disabilities is changing with the times. Jen Knights is part of the University of Iowa's School of Social Work, and says they've decided to transition "Wild Bill’s Coffee Shop" to...
An event designed to "perk" up the spirits of coffee lovers in northwest Iowa is planned for this weekend. The Siouxland Coffee Festival allows coffee drinkers to sample a host of hot and iced varieties of the beverage from all over the country. Ryan Martinez is...
The owners of an Iowa-based chain of coffee shops are being named Iowa's Small Business Persons of the year by the Iowa District Office of the U.S. Small Business Administration. Brad Barber, and his wife Angie, opened their first Cabin Coffee in Clear Lake in 2002...
They will be up early in the McLeod Center Tuesday morning when Northern Iowa hosts Stephen F. Austin in college basketball action. It will be a 7:00a.m. tip off as part of ESPN's College Hoops Tip Off Marathon. The Panthers beat the Lumberjacks 79-77 in double...
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton met with a small group of Democrats in a coffee shop in Marshalltown this morning. Clinton's campaign team organized similar stops in Davenport and Le Claire yesterday, events designed to show Clinton listening and...
Health officials in Iowa are cautioning people about a new pocket-sized caffeine inhaler. The product is called AeroShot and it's being marketed on the East Coast, for now. Each $3 canister contains six flavored puffs or "shots" of caffeine, about the same as six big...
How much for a bottom-less cup of coffee in the Iowa House of Representatives? House leaders have decided the going rate this year will be $25 per person. The money raised from members of the House or their staff who are coffee drinkers will hopefully replace the...
A coffee shop that played an unusual role in Iowa City history holds its grand reopening next week. Wild Bill's Coffee Shop was the workplace of Bill Sackter, the man on whom the popular 1981 movie "Bill" was based, starring Mickey Rooney, and a documentary in 2008....
No matter how tough the economic times, coffee lovers won't part with their morning cup of java. While many companies are facing layoffs and cuts, a southwest Iowa company that makes coffee packaging plans for steady growth in the coming year. Don Romig is plant...