THE NEWSROOM

An economist with Kansas-based Armada Corporate Intelligence says expectations for a coming recession have softened. Speaking yesterday during a webinar hosted by the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce’s World Trade Association, Chris Kuehl highlighted a...

Rockwell Automation increased its top and bottom-line outlook for its 2023 fiscal year, citing a gradual improvement in supply chains. The Milwaukee-based maker of automation equipment and software now expects its reported sales to increase between 10% and 14% for the...

The Wisconsin Hospital Association Information Center (WHAIC) is launching a modern redesign to its PricePoint tool enabling consumers, patients, and other users to easily access and compare pricing information of health care services across the state. The cornerstone...

Rockwell Automation Inc. continues capitalizing on the alternative energy industry’s expansion, winning projects at new plants for solar panel manufacturer First Solar Inc., including a $1 billion factory planned for the southeastern United States. Rockwell’s work for...

Urban League of Greater Madison, Urban Triage and the Center for Black Excellence and Culture headlined a list of 2022 grant recipients from Madison Community Foundation. The three organizations combined for about half of the $697,500 in money from the community...

The head of the Wisconsin Bankers Association says inflation is causing deposits to slow. In a recent interview, WBA President and CEO Rose Oswald Poels explained deposit levels were “extremely high” during the COVID-19 pandemic due to various factors. Some customers...

A new industry survey shows the majority of Wisconsin businesses worry the state is headed toward a recession, but economists are less certain. Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce released the results of a survey of 164 employers from various industries last week....

Wauwatosa-based GenoPalate, Inc., a nutritional genomics company, is now offering its customers a line of personalized supplements to support their unique health needs. The new line, called GenoVit, gives customers a cost-effective solution to increase their vitamin...

Milwaukee-based Health Payment Systems, Inc. (HPS) and PayMedix, a health care payment processing system, announced this week it has closed a $25 million funding round that will be used to help accelerate the company’s growth. Milwaukee-based Hexagon...

Smart Scan Medical Imaging has opened its doors for business at 3004 Golf Road in Eau Claire WI. Smart Scan offers state of the art MR Imaging at their independent clinics, using new GE Voyager 1.5 Tesla Wide Bore scanners. Dr Jeffrey Rosengarten is the President and...

An alternative may be coming to the costly, annual dredging that has been used to keep sand from clogging up Lake Altoona. The Lake Altoona District has been gifted $1.2 million worth of equipment that passively filters sand out of river water and moves it off-site....

Some of the most deadly cancers are also among the hardest to detect before symptoms appear, but Wisconsin researchers used technology to develop what they believe could be a more effective and inexpensive way to identify cancer early. Researchers at the University of...

Far northern Wisconsin has faced several extreme floods in the last decade that have caused tens of millions of dollars in damage to infrastructure while also cutting off power for some living in the region. Now, Xcel Energy and Bayfield County are partnering to build...

One of Wisconsin's most successful startups is investing in new physical office spaces in Madison and Chicago but has stopped short of requiring employees to use them. Fetch, the Madison-based maker of an increasingly popular consumer loyalty app, opened a new...