Gale Klappa, longtime executive of WEC Energy group, to step down in 2026
Gale Klappa served as an executive of WEC Energy Group for 23 years. He will retire after the company meeting in May.
$15 billion Vantage data center breaks ground in Port Washington
Construction begins on Vantage Data Centers’ $15B Port Washington campus, a massive AI data center tied to OpenAI and Oracle’s Stargate program.
Where’s the ‘official’ push to keep Talgo in Milwaukee?

By Marie Rohde
staff writer
Just nine months after Talgo announced it was moving into Milwaukee with the support of the governor and the Milwaukee mayor, the company is now asking: What happened? Where are you guys?
Wind power firm to expand its production in Wis.
By ?THOMAS CONTENT Milwaukee Journal Sentinel NEW BERLIN, Wis. (AP) — A Danish firm’s expansion is giving Wisconsin another player in the manufacturing sector geared toward alternative energy. Avanti Wind […]
Milwaukee County trying to play nice with its neighbors

By Joe Lanane
staff writer
The advent of regional development associations has cropped up in the Milwaukee metropolitan area, and while these efforts are mostly symbolic, it may be the first step toward a truly unified economic collabora[...]
City faces local preference criticism (UPDATE)
By Sean Ryan A Milwaukee alderman is defending the city’s preference for local bidders against criticism from Milwaukee 7, a group formed to promote regional cooperation. “It seems any type […]
Today’s News
- Baird Center CEO fired by convention center board
- Q&A: Minnesota environmental group leader talks data center review process
- Trump announces $19M modernization of coal plant near Portage
- Wauwatosa shops for specialty grocer
- Wisconsin allocates nearly $50M in tax credits for housing projects
- Contractors eager to fill positions as open construction jobs tick up to 259,000
- Wisconsin awards $130,000 for construction and trade worker training
- Milwaukee manufacturer plans expansion with data center growth
- Megaprojects push Milwaukee construction costs above U.S. average
- Brown County drops data center moratorium proposal
- Cobalt Partners share North Shore Library development plans
- Zignego Co. scores $45M highway contract at start of construction season
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)










