Milwaukee has tweaked its rules for city contractors to bar offensive conduct after a company's employees were caught carrying guns and a cooler bearing a Klu Klux Klan sticker on the job.

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Milwaukee aldermen have approved a proposal that would require certain downtown construction and demolition projects to come equipped with canopies meant to protect passersby.

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American Sewer Services has asked if it can wait until next week to go before a group of city officials who expressed outrage after photos surfaced showing gun-touting employees and a cooler bearing a Ku Klux Klan sticker at the company's job sites.

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It looks as if the third time was a charm for Chris Houden, a developer seeking to put in a new high-rise on North Prospect Avenue in Milwaukee. Houden’s proposed development was approved on Tuesday by the city’s Common Council. The plans ...

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Milwaukee leaders say they want to investigate whether houses built between in the decade before the city started requiring service lines to be made of copper are getting drinking water from lead pipes.

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The proposed expansion of the Potawatomi Hotel & Casino got its first key endorsement from a panel of Milwaukee officials on Monday.

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Music fans on their way to Summerfest this year will have something to celebrate beyond the 50th anniversary of the massive outdoor concert festival.

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Although a Milwaukee Common Council committee has endorsed using $47 million to help finance a downtown basketball arena, a public plaza proposed for just outside the new structure may ultimately be removed from the design plans.

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A committee of the Milwaukee Common Council has endorsed a $47 million city proposal to help finance a new Milwaukee Bucks downtown arena.

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Milwaukee lawns might sink to a new low.

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