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Former owner of electrical contractor pleads guilty in tax case
The former owner of an electrical-contracting company who was indicted last year for failing to pay payroll taxes has taken a plea deal.
Evers says Wisconsin joining group fighting climate change
Gov. Tony Evers says Wisconsin will be joining the U.S. Climate Alliance, a group that works to enforce an international climate accord and combat climate change at the state level.
Courts not seeing flurry of lawsuits after statute-of-repose change
After the Wisconsin Senate last spring passed legislation that would give contractors further protection from certain lawsuits, the state’s plaintiffs’ attorney bar advised members in March to file lawsuits before the new law took effect that summer.
Conditional Use: High court to weigh in on permitting dispute
When local officials placed additional insurance requirements on Enbridge Energy Co. in 2015 as part of granting a conditional-use permit for a pipeline project in northeast Dane County, company officials were quick to file an appeal.
Law firm involved in public notice going out of business (UPDATE)
A large law firm that had been involved heavily in publishing public notices is shutting down in the midst of two pending lawsuits in Waukesha County.
AG opinion could bring broader regulation of shorelands
Because of a recent legal opinion from the state attorney general, shoreland property in towns may be subject to broader regulation.
High court to hear dispute over city’s annexation of land for sand mine
The Wisconsin Supreme Court will be kicking off 2019 with a lineup of oral arguments that includes a dispute between a city and town over whether the land for a sand mine was properly annexed.
Industry sees jump in jobs
Forty-two states and the District of Columbia added jobs between November this year and November last year, according to the Associated General Contractors of America’s analysis of U.S. Department of Labor data.
Supreme Court to pick up pieces amid contractor dispute over collapsed barn
When a barn in rural Dane County halfway collapsed during a storm in 2013, killing cows and damaging property, everyone knew it was going to cost a lot to pick up the pieces.
Diversity starts in Balestrieri’s own house
For Balestrieri Environmental & Development, diversity has been central to its 26-years of success as an environmental-remediation and industrial-services company.
For Hispanic professionals group, diversity is about action
Seventeen years ago, diversity and inclusion weren’t even being talked about at many businesses and institutions. However, both topics have been front and center at the Hispanic Professionals of Greater Milwaukee since its founding in 2001.
Greenfire pays it forward
For Milwaukee-based Greenfire Management Services, diversity is about giving back and helping other minority firms build success.
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- Kraus-Anderson will deliver first phase of $175M Big Bend sports complex
- Long-delayed Milwaukee boutique hotel plans show signs of life
- I-794 bridge improvements starting in Milwaukee
- Wisconsin Pre-Bid Meetings – Week of May 4, 2026
- Construction worker killed in lumber pile collapse in West Bend
- Milwaukee to Madison train line to cost $200M with state help
- I-794 removal could see $500M in development, but more crashes
- Cobalt Partners changes up its Third Ward moving plans
- State program releases $135M for local roads
- Eau Claire approves $270M biomanufacturing facility deal
- Manitowoc port development gets $20 million boost
- Mark Hammond, Wauwatosa development director, will leave for nonprofit job
Project Profiles
- First prefabricated bridge in US installed in Eau Claire County
- Illinois developer worked with Wisconsin contractor to build 258-unit Wauwatosa apartment complex
- VJS Construction raises the roof for Bruce Guadalupe Community School expansion project
- Microgrid pilot project will store energy for village affected by outages
- Dane County sees uptick in highway work zone crashes, on track to exceed last year
- The Hop streetcar will debut newest service route in fall with limited service
- FPC Live slims venue proposal to 1 downtown building
- Children’s Hospital urgent care center in Milwaukee gets first round of city approval
- With Sonag Construction shut down, feds move to block indicted owner from collecting leftover assets
- Four contractors selected to build border wall prototypes
- UW-Milwaukee’s Greenstreet shaping minds (and the city)
- Turning the Corner(s) (PHOTO SLIDESHOW)