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Two recently unemployed Chinese nationals weigh their options in a cramped Park Falls motel room, not far from where they worked in a former paper mill now being used to mine cryptocurrency. One of them continues to nurse a stitched-up laceration across his left wrist...

Richland County leaders are fuming over University of Wisconsin-Platteville officials’ plan to shift to online education at their Richland branch campus after in-person instruction there ends for good after the spring semester. UW System President Jay Rothman in...

Lakeland University has received a $75,000 entrepreneurship grant from the Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) to help veterans start their own businesses. The grant will enable Lakeland to expand existing programs and to build new programs to address the...

Oshkosh Chamber of Commerce activities for the past 20 years have generated and supported a $1.5 billion economic impact and helped create and support 13,481 jobs, according to a study just released. In 2022, the Chamber partnered with the Center for Customized...

Wisconsin added 1,500 private sector jobs and the state’s unemployment rate dipped to 3.2% in December, according to the latest preliminary data released by the Department of Workforce Development. The slight uptick in December leaves the state with 2.1%...

Hartland-based startup Wearable Technologies Inc. has been named one of just 40 global finalists in the 2023 South by Southwest (SXSW) Pitch competition. The startup’s founder and chief executive officer, Deepak Arora, developed a wearable device that uses artificial...

Xcel Energy and Bayfield County have signed an agreement to partner to construct Wisconsin’s first microgrid under an innovative new utility program. Through Xcel Energy’s EMPOWER Resiliency program, Bayfield County, in far northern Wisconsin, will build a microgrid...

Gene therapies have the potential to treat neurological disorders like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases, but they face a common barrier — the blood-brain barrier. Now, researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have developed a way to move therapies across...

Fox Valley Technical College has officially signed two articulation agreements that will allow students earning an Associate of Arts (AA) or Associate of Science (AS) from FVTC to seamlessly transfer to UW Oshkosh or UW-Green Bay with junior standing to continue their...

According to Cody Retlich, he has two passions: drones and helping people. Retlich became professionally involved with drones while studying Entrepreneurship at UW-Whitewater. During that time, he worked for a firm that used drones to conduct surveys of agricultural...

Through two new clinical trials, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison hope to better understand how opioid and methamphetamine addictions can be treated using a different drug: psilocybin. In recent years, psilocybin has generated renewed interest from...

The University of Wisconsin System hired a new chancellor for UW-Whitewater in what many hope will end a years-long trend of unstable leadership at the southern Wisconsin institution. The UW Board of Regents unanimously approved Corey King as the next UW-Whitewater...

A recession has yet to hit the American economy but remains likely and inflation will continue decreasing but remain “sticky” throughout 2023, according to the keynote speaker at the Milwaukee Business Journal’s Economic Forecast luncheon. “I still think a recession...

Union membership in Wisconsin declined by 28,000 in 2022, dropping below 200,000 for the first time since at least 2000, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The state had 187,000 union members this past year, down from 215,000 in 2021. The 13%...

This week’s episode of “WisBusiness: the Podcast” is with Mike Semmann, vice president of government affairs for the Wisconsin Grocers Association. The discussion ranges from inflation and supply chain impacts on prices to efforts to address the workforce shortage....

While workers are slowly returning to the office after the pandemic forced many to work from home, companies are rethinking how they invest in their workspaces. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, many of the jobs that were traditionally done in a physical office space have...

The first cohort in gener8tor’s gBETA program in Kenosha includes startup companies focused on speech therapy technology, travel agency services, candle making and financial services. City officials and startup accelerator gener8tor last month kicked off the inaugural...

Wisconsin’s entrepreneurial spirit will again be on display this spring as the “Project Pitch It” TV show, similar to ABC’s “Shark Tank,” returns for its seventh season on March 18. Once again, 24 entrepreneurs will pitch their business on “Project Pitch It” to a...