An affiliate of Foxconn Technology Group has paid $9.5 million for a six-story office building near the state Capitol, real estate records show.

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Madison officials this week put off recommending a developer for the construction of a high-rise at the city's Judge Doyle Square development amid questions over the standards the various companies competing for the job would use in paying and hiring workers.

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Madison officials are planning to turn a 66-year-old industrial building into a year-round destination for fresh produce, diverse and locally prepared food, and handmade arts and crafts.

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Maybe you know the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum for its magnolias, crabapples or lilacs in the spring. Or, for its abundance of wildlife and effigy mounds.

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A blast of polar air enveloped much of the Midwest on Wednesday, cracking train rails, breaking water pipes and straining electrical systems. But in Wisconsin’s two largest cities, city officials were saying the cold snap hadn’t caused as much damage to infrastructure as had the previous deep freeze five years ago.

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A global biotechnology company plans to add more than 100 new jobs at its facility in southern Wisconsin.

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A proposed ordinance would penalize business owners in Madison who leave their doors and windows open too long while running air conditioners.

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Madison water utility officials say they will increase testing for toxic chemicals that are spreading from contaminated soil and groundwater at Truax Air National Guard Base on the city's north side.

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The global life-sciences company Eurofins Scientific plans to buy land in a Madison business park and build a $35 million laboratory and office building that could house nearly 500 employees.

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Scott Novotny's nickname – Mr. Salty – was truly fitting. Every fall would find the owner of the Quality True Value Hardware Store in Madison, a business Novotny bought from his parents in 2006, bringing in loads of ice melt in preparation for the inevitable slick sidewalks and driveways that are part and parcel of Wisconsin winters. The 50-pound bags would be stacked in front of the store, lying in heaps along its sidewalk, and around the building's south side, into its small parking lot.

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