THE NEWSROOM

On the heels of his 2023 State of the State address announcement of more than $190 million in investments to bolster Wisconsin's workforce, Gov. Tony Evers and Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development (DWD) Secretary Amy Pechacek today announced a new "Winning...

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...

As venture capital momentum slowed in late 2022, fewer dollars flowed to Wisconsin startups last quarter compared with earlier in the year and in the same quarter of previous years. But 2022 as a whole was still a historically strong year for venture capital...

After peaking in May, Wisconsin saw a slowdown in wage growth that continued in the fourth quarter, but the increase in average hourly wages remained above 5% in December, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The average hourly wage in the state...

Chicago-based Molson Coors Beverage Company and the Greater Milwaukee Urban League announced today that they will partner to launch a networking group for local Black entrepreneurs, called the GMUL Entrepreneurship Connection. As part of the program – which includes...

Venture capital with a conscience has hit the streets of Milwaukee through the opening of the city’s newest VC firm: VC 414. Founded by venture capitalist and angel investor Jennifer Abele and former BMO Harris executive Raquel Filmanowicz, VC 414 launched at the...

The year 2022 was a big one for merger and acquisition activity among hospitals and health systems in Wisconsin. To understand how the health care marketplace is being transformed by this and other trends – including higher costs, labor shortages and the shift to...

The new home of Marquette University’s business and innovation leadership programs, the Dr. E.J. and Margaret O’Brien Hall opened its doors to students last week. “We told prospective students and their families they would have seven or eight semesters in the most...

It’s been more than two decades since Rob LoBreglio, co-founder and brewmaster of the Great Dane Pub & Brewing Company, first started joking with his friend and former brewing apprentice Tetsuya Kiyosawa about opening a brewery in Kiyosawa’s native Japan. When...