By Marie Rohde A downtown Milwaukee Boston Store was closed Monday after an interior wall collapsed, according to a spokesman for the store owner. “It apparently happened overnight,” said Brian Manthey, a spokesman for Wispark LLC, the parent company for ...

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By Marie Rohde Eight workers severely injured in an explosion at the We Energies power plant in Oak Creek have received a $16 million settlement in a civil lawsuit, said their lawyer, Timothy Trecek. The settlement was announced Thursday on ...

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By Marie Rohde When the lights blink and the weather’s not stormy, there’s a good chance a squirrel just died. Squirrels as electrocution victims are a leading cause of power outages and a gnawing concern for utilities such as We ...

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By Marie Rohde The price of copper hit a 31-month high in New York and set a record in London on Tuesday. That’s great news for Chile, the world’s largest producer of the metal, but bad news for contractors and ...

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By James Briggs The state Department of Natural Resources has agreed to buy 2,714 acres along the Wisconsin-Michigan border from We Energies. If approved by the Joint Committee on Finance, as well as Gov. Jim Doyle, the DNR‘s $3.25 million ...

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MILWAUKEE – Audubon Middle School in Milwaukee was evacuated shortly before noon on Tuesday after a construction crew hit a gas line near the school. According to We Energies spokesman Brian Manthey, the crew hit a 3-inch gas main near ...

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By Paul Snyder A school district in Rothschild is giving more than 2,600 reasons for demanding the state pinpoint exactly how much pollution a proposed biomass plant in the area will produce. “Our concern is to be careful about the ...

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By Darryl Enriquez Dane County is $250,000 short of the money needed for a planned $740,000 effort to build a compressed natural gas fueling station, buy more than a half-dozen vehicles that run on the fuel and convert methane gas ...

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We Energies has selected three Wisconsin contractors to build the Glacier Hills Wind Park. The three contractors are The Boldt Co., Appleton; Michels Corp., Brownsville; and Edgerton Contractors Inc., Oak Creek. The project to build a wind farm in Columbia ...

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