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The Milwaukee area ended 2020 with its best year ever for home sales, a feat brought-on by the pandemic.

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Hoffman Construction was the low bidder for a $20.6 million project that was part of more than $100 million worth of work in the Wisconsin Department of Transportation's January letting.

About one in 10 Wisconsin construction workers are improperly classified as independent contractors or paid in cash, abuses that deprive the state of about $40 million worth of tax revenue every year.

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President-elect Joe Biden has introduced a $1.9 trillion coronavirus plan to end "a crisis of deep human suffering" by speeding up vaccination and pumping out financial help to those struggling with the pandemic's prolonged economic fallout.

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The head of the Wisconsin Capitol Police told state lawmakers to stay away from the Capitol building this weekend and suggested that they remove any personal information from social media accounts due to threats of unrest at capitols in all 50 states.

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The Wisconsin Elections Commission is recommending that a former lawmaker who wants to run for a vacancy in the state Senate be allowed on the ballot, despite a challenge contending that he doesn't live in the district.

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Dozens of La Crosse-area wells are contaminated with forever chemicals known as PFAS, tests revealed.

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Wisconsin county governments may soon begin using a database that a construction trade group developed to help make sure contractors bidding on public projects are on the up and up.

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Assembly Republicans grilled health officials with Democratic Gov. Tony Evers' administration Thursday about the lagging pace of COVID-19 vaccinations in Wisconsin, saying the process is a cumbersome mess.

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