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The Wisconsin Public Service Commission won't weigh in on whether a $700 million natural-gas plant proposed for Superior will contribute to climate change despite objections made by various environmental groups.

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Six construction workers were hurt when a second-story concrete floor collapsed on a building project in Mukwonago on Wednesday morning.

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In signing his first biennial budget on Wednesday, Gov. Tony Evers tossed out a number of GOP-sponsored infrastructure provisions, including a bridge project in the district of a key Republican lawmaker and rules that would make it easier for gravel quarries to operate in Wisconsin.

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To break up a logjam of infrastructure repairs that could cost as much as $400 million in the next four years, Milwaukee County needs to part ways with some of the properties it owns and find a new source of revenue to pay for needed work, according to a recent report.

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As Wisconsin revisits rules to crack down on worker misclassification, a new law that took effect in Minnesota on Monday is attaching criminal penalties not only to that particular abuse but also other forms of wage theft — making it one of the strictest such laws in the country.

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A lawsuit filed last week argues the Waukesha-based concrete contractor Spancrete should have included employee bonuses when it tallied overtime payments for employees working at the company's manufacturing plant in Valders.

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A lawsuit filed this week accuses a Fox Valley dump truck company of shorting a former driver on pay.

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The brand new solar array that Jerry Erjavec installed on his garage at his home finally began to live up to its promise last month after a brutal winter and tepid spring.

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Various environmental and civil-rights groups are calling on the state Legislature to abandon plans for a long-proposed expansion of Interstate 94 west of downtown Milwaukee and other big highway projects.

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Republicans in the state Assembly approved increasing spending on town roads and other last-minute changes to the state budget on Tuesday to appease skeptical conservatives, saying their proposals are fiscally responsible and should be signed into law by Gov. Tony Evers.

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