Monitors beep and intravenous poles line the hallway of an eight-bed wing in UW Hospital's ever-expanding COVID-19 unit. Tubes deliver high-powered oxygen to patients who can barely breathe, many of whom were healthy just days ago. Before entering the rooms, nurses don gowns, gloves and hood-like respirators. No patient visitors are allowed.

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Wisconsin opened its alternative-care center at State Fair Park for COVID-19 patients on Wednesday, the day the state announced more than 1,000 patients were currently hospitalized with the virus, the highest number yet.

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The Wisconsin State Fair was canceled Thursday in response to the coronavirus pandemic, marking the first time since 1945 that the 169-year-old annual tradition will not take place.

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State officials are hitting pause on a plan to convert Madison's Alliant Energy Center into a site for the treatment of patients with mild cases of coronaviurus patients.

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More than 200 union tradespeople worked on the project, which entailed the installation of 500 hospital beds, temporary restrooms, dressing rooms and showers in one of the fairground’s exhibition halls. State and local officials enlisted the Army Corps of Engineers for the project, which is meant to give COVID-19 patients with relatively mild symptoms have a place to recover while hospital space is being reserved for people with the worst cases.

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The number of people testing positive for the coronavirus in Wisconsin continued to rise Sunday, as the state began preparing to use Alliant Energy Center as a possible care center in the event of a surge.

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The Army Corps of Engineers is moving ahead with building an overflow center for COVID-19 patients at State Fair Park in West Allis and has hired Gilbane and a number of other contractors to work on the project.

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Wisconsin State Fair officials say this year's fair set a modern-day attendance record.

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State officials are organizing a construction resource fair for May 3 at State Fair Park to help recruit workers for the $10 billion factory Foxconn is building in Racine County and other projects.

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State Fair Park officials have kept shoddy contract records and have no plan for the underused Milwaukee Mile race track, according to an audit released Friday.

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