(Janesville, WI) Benjamin Pierce, Gazette The safer-at-home order in Rock County will end Thursday. Beginning at 8 a.m. Thursday, the order will be replaced with a “phased reopening plan,” county health officer Marie-Noel Sandoval said in a press conference Tuesday....

(Beloit, WI) Hillary Gavan, Beloit Daily News The University of Wisconsin, Office of Educational Opportunity (OEO) issued a conditional approval of the charter school application for The Lincoln Academy on May 15. MORE INFO

(Town of Beloit, WI) Brad Allen, Beloit Daily News The newly completed West Riverside Energy Center is now serving customers in the Stateline Area, Alliant Energy officials said Friday. MORE NEWS

(Beloit, WI) Austin Montgomery, BDN Company growth at NorthStar Medical Radioisotopes remains uninterrupted by COVID-19, according to CEO Steve Merrick. MORE INFO

(Beloit, WI) Austin Montgomery, BDN Rock County tourism data from 2019 shows an increase in visitor spending locally compared to 2018. MORE INFO

(Janesville, WI) Neil Johnson, Gazette Forward Janesville is pitching to state officials and area communities a framework to safely restart local economies that have been halted because of the COVID-19 pandemic. MORE INFO

(Rock County, WI) The results from the statewide COVID-19 impact assessment are in and those findings underscore just how fragile the economic landscape has become in a relatively short period of time. Statewide, 35% of the businesses participating in the assessment...

(Rock County, WI) The results from the statewide COVID-19 impact assessment are in and those findings underscore just how fragile the economic landscape has become in a relatively short period of time. Statewide, 35% of the businesses participating in the assessment...

(Beloit, WI) Austin Montgomery, Beloit Daily News The Ho-Chunk Nation’s casino and resort plan in Beloit took a major step forward Thursday, receiving federal approval and moving the project one step closer to a potential groundbreaking. MORE INFO

(Janesville, WI) Benjamin Pierce, Gazette The Rock County Board has approved a $1 million emergency loan program to keep small businesses from closing permanently in the current struggling economy. The Rock County COVID-19 Emergency Small Business Loan Fund will lend...