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The Ruth Foundation for the Arts has pledged $11.5 million to 138 arts organizations across the country, the Milwaukee-based nonprofit announced today. 

A Racine startup that seeks to make short-term rentals a real-life marketplace has now been backed by Milwaukee-based venture capital firm Gateway Capital.

Wisconsin lost 1,600 private sector jobs in October and the state’s labor force participation rate continued to fall, according to the latest data released by the state Department of Workforce Development.

Home sales in the four-county metro Milwaukee area fell 29% in October, year-over-year, and 26.3% in the greater southeastern Wisconsin region, according to the latest report from the Greater Milwaukee Association of Realtors.

Tim Sullivan, the former CEO of REV Group, Gardner Denver and Bucyrus International, is donating $1 million to Catholic Memorial High School in Waukesha to support the school's plans to expand by purchasing the Infinity Fields Baseball Park complex in Waukesha.

Most of the economic indicators tracked by the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce improved in September, according to the MMAC’s latest economic trends report.

Chicago-based Pilot Project Brewing is on track to open its new Milwaukee location next Friday. The brewery incubator acquired both the old Milwaukee Brewing Company facility at 1128 N. 9th St. and the Bottlehouse 42 restaurant in September.

Robert Kern, the founder of Town of Genesee-based generator manufacturer Generac Power Systems Inc., died Tuesday at the age of 96, the company announced today.

A local realtors group says the Milwaukee area is building too many apartments and lacks enough new single-family homes,...

Chicago-based L&W Supply Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of Beloit-based ABC Supply Co., has acquired Tyngsboro, Massachusetts-based Dana Wallboard Supply, Inc.