Government & Politics

Wisconsin received its first allocation of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine today.

Milwaukee County officials say they have formally received a $40.9 million federal grant that will allow construction to start this spring on the roughly $55 million bus rapid-transit project.

Milwaukee County and Milwaukee’s four largest health systems plan to develop a mental health emergency center on the city’s near north side.

Nearly 800 financial institutions dispersed 89,615 Paycheck Protection Program loans to Wisconsin businesses for a combined total of approximately $9.9 billion, according to U.S. Small Business Administration data made public earlier this month.

Tony Snell, volunteer and staffing coordinator at VISIT Milwaukee, has been named chair of the City of Milwaukee Equal Rights Commission. 

Wisconsin is expected to receive nearly 50,000 doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine in the coming weeks, pending its authorization by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration, which is expected as early as this week.

A new 350,000-square-foot, $112 million Kroger fulfillment center in Pleasant Prairie is being supported with a roughly $950,000 grant from the Wisconsin Department of Transportation, Gov. Tony Evers announced Monday.

Milwaukee County will forgo its right to reclaim the land where The Couture is being built and will defer ownership to the city of the transit center component of the project.

The thought of vacationing by cruise ship any time soon seems far-fetched as the COVID-19 pandemic looms, but Port Milwaukee has its sights set on better days for the local cruise market.

Strauss Brands’ plans to expand to a new facility in the city of Franklin face a new challenge after a group of homeowners and a nonprofit organization filed a lawsuit seeking to void the city’s approval of the project.