THE NEWSROOM

Gov. Tony Evers, together with Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) Secretary and CEO Missy Hughes, today announced more than 6,600 small businesses and nonprofits have been approved for Main Street Bounceback Grants to fill empty storefronts in all 72...

Aaron P. Jagdfeld, president and CEO of Waukesha-based Generac Power Systems, joins moderator Mark Richardson for a conversation on Oct. 12 at the Grand Ballroom at The Edgewater Hotel in Madison, Wisconsin. This series is sponsored by The Burish Group at UBS. Mark...

Tom Westrick, who is a top GE Healthcare executive based at the company’s Wauwatosa offices, will continue in a leading executive-level role after the company spins off in January 2023 from parent company General Electric Co. Westrick, 54, is listed as one of nine...

A University of Wisconsin-Madison historian on Wednesday won one of the nation's most prestigious awards, which comes with a no strings attached $800,000 stipend to spend however she sees fit. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation named UW-Madison...

SHINE Technologies and Von Gahlen International today announced that SHINE’s supercell has passed factory acceptance testing. Completion of that testing means the supercell, a bank of 10 hot cells, is now being prepared for final shipment to The Chrysalis, SHINE’s...

Clean energy advocates hope a recent move by Gov. Tony Evers to join in a regional consortium will help Wisconsin win federal funding to expand hydrogen power in the state. Evers signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding. It's an informal collaboration between...

Danish data analytics software firm APX10 has opened its first U.S. office in Milwaukee's Global Water Center, according to a recent announcement. It's among several new tenants in the Walker's Point facility. APX10, which aggregates and analyzes water data for...

Marshfield Clinic Research Institute is the sole participant from the United States' Midwest in a worldwide Pfizer Phase 3 clinical trial, Vaccine Against Lyme for Outdoor Recreationists (VALOR), to investigate the efficacy, safety and immunogenicity of their...

The latest annual report by Milwaukee Women inc shows that women hold 26.3% of board seats at Wisconsin’s top 50 public companies. That’s an all-time high, up from 23.3% in 2021, and surpasses MWi’s goal of 25% by 2025. Created in 2002, the local nonprofit group is...

Chalk this up as another one of those facts about the heartland that may go underappreciated on the coasts: The No. 1 university in America for turning out current CEOs of Fortune 500 companies is not Harvard, not Stanford, not Notre Dame. It’s the University of...

For the second consecutive year, UW-Madison’s freshman class is the largest in the school’s history, despite the university sending acceptance letters to fewer students than in previous years. This year’s freshman class stands at 8,628, up nearly 2% from last year’s...

Wisconsin utilities have proposed a handful of large-scale battery projects, and the Inflation Reduction Act provides new incentives for energy storage. Even so, supply chain constraints and challenges with connecting those projects to the grid may delay their...

Females in leadership positions among Wisconsin's public and private companies continues to grow, according to Milwaukee Women inc's annual report. The Milwaukee Women inc 2022 report found that women hold 26.3% of director seats in Wisconsin's top 50 public...

Wisconsin exported a record $3.96 billion worth of goods in 2021. Now, the state is on track for another record-setting year. But on Wednesday, the World Trade Organization predicted a significant slowdown in 2023 — with exports stymied by Russia's war in Ukraine,...

With the new US office in place, the company aims to accelerate the digitalisation journey of US water & wastewater utilities and take infrastructure reinvestment and asset management decision making to the next level. The data|APX® software platform from APX10...

During a visit to Milwaukee this week, AOL founder and venture capitalist Steve Case had a packed schedule of discussions with local entrepreneurs, investors, government officials, corporate leaders and innovation ecosystem supporters. His day ended with a fireside...

A professor of biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has been chosen as the first recipient of the Salm-Bray Distinguished Chair at the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences. Michael Sussman will hold the appointment through June 2027. The...

Orion Energy Systems Inc., a Manitowoc-based provider of energy efficient LED lighting and electrical installation and maintenance services, has entered the growing electric vehicle charging station market with the acquisition of Voltrek, LLC, an electric vehicle...