Leaders in Wisconsin communities say they hope new federal grants aimed at cleaning up contamination can pave the way for redevelopment.

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A sweeping bipartisan housing bill passed through Congress earlier this week, with provisions aimed at making it easier to build new houses and rezone communities.

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A new report from a progressive think tank argues that hundreds of thousands of Wisconsin workers would benefit from raising the state's minimum wage to $20 an hour by 2030.

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A number of small communities in the Midwest are part of the program. Fond du Lac is offering a $5,500 stipend and the rest in potential perks for childcare, community events and more.

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Microsoft has completed construction of a massive data center in Mount Pleasant. The facility is now fully operational and employing hundreds of people, the company says.

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Superior Water, Light & Power is the only privately owned water utility in Wisconsin. The city's mayor would like to change that.

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Businesses say they are facing staffing challenges because many of the foreign workers they rely on through the summer tourism season haven’t arrived.

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled that a state college grant program for minority students is unconstitutional. UW-Madison’s Taylor Odle said he hopes that program can be repurposed to address Wisconsin’s college affordability problem.

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Last month, seed seller Bayer and the U.S. Department of Justice reached an agreement to suspend parts of a seed loyalty program that regulators argued was anticompetitive and drove up prices. A researcher and independent seed company explain why they say the move was needed.

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A Wisconsin U.S. senator says the Army mishandled a major vehicle contract by giving it to a private equity-backed company instead of a Fox Valley manufacturer.

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We Energies and a pair of data center developers are asking state regulators to loosen financial protections included in a new special rate structure for data centers.

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Several Wisconsin companies signed deals to provide critical components for new data centers. An analyst told WPR these deals mean Wisconsin businesses are seeing new opportunities with the boom in AI data center development.

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New data from the Department of Tourism shows a record $27 billion year for Wisconsin tourism in 2025 — $1.2 billion more than 2024, which previously held the record.

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A projected decline in Wisconsin’s working-age population means the state needs to build fewer housing units than previously expected, according to a new report.

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Generac's sales of industrial-scale generators have been rising based on demand from data centers and its stock price has more than doubled since the start of the year. The company is expanding in Wisconsin, with plans to open a new factory to meet growing demand.

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Wisconsin's Joint Committee on Finance voted to sell the former State Human Services Building to Landmark Development Services Company for $10 million.

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The average price for a pound of beef hit a record-high $9.64 in April. Steak and ground beef prices are both up more than 14 percent compared to this time last year. An agriculture professor says these prices are on the rise and a butcher shop owner shares what he’s seeing.

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A pair of Wisconsin academics note the Pope’s sentiments capture concerns over the explosion of artificial intelligence at a time when public policy isn’t keeping pace.

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The median home cost in Wisconsin’s two biggest metro areas is at least five times the median household income in those communities, among the highest in the Midwest.

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The bipartisan bill to spend the state’s multi-billion-dollar surplus failed after all state Senate Democrats and three Republicans voted it down.

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