The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. DES MOINES — After being in place for decades, the state’s unemployment system website is getting a ...

Iowa Workforce Development merged its system for filing unemployment claims into the IowaWorks system used to train and find people new jobs at the start of the month. IWD director Beth Townsend says ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — Iowa's unemployment insurance system is undergoing a significant transformation. The existing system will go offline Tueday and will be replaced with a modernized platform aimed at ...

The state unemployment rate rose one-tenth of a percent to 3.5% in April. Iowa Workforce Development director Beth Townsend says that’s partly because more people are looking for work. “We had 5,000 ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - Iowa leaders are seeing an increase in people joining apprenticeships, the Department of Workforce Development has announced $3.4 million to support those programs. That ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (KCRG) - Iowa’s system for processing unemployment insurance claims and helping people find jobs will go dark at the end of the day as the state gets ready to replace it with a new, ...