(Milton, WI) Milton Courier Chico Pope, owner of the Buckhorn Supper Club in Milton, was honored as the Restaurateur of the Year by the Wisconsin Restaurant Association. The award is the industry’s top honor.  MORE INFO

(Janesville, WI) Gary Kohn, BTC Yesterday, leaders from Blackhawk Technical College (BTC), Rock County 5.0 and the Southwest Wisconsin Workforce Development Board presented four “earn and learn” initiatives to more than 100 attendees. MORE INFO 

(Janesville, WI) Gary Kohn, BTC Blackhawk Technical College (BTC) nursing students are among the best in the state…AGAIN! According to the Wisconsin State Board of Nursing, BTC’s nursing students netted a composite score of 100% on the most recent National Council...

(Janesville, WI) Gazette Staff        St. William Catholic School's First Lego League team took top prize in one of four categories at the state Lego League championship at Parker High School on Sunday. MORE INFO

(Janesville, WI) Neil Johnson, Gazette Organizers announced Tuesday that they’ve set the course for the Janesville Town Square Gran Prix, which is the city’s leg of the Tour of America’s Dairyland, a major criterium (closed-circuit) bicycle race that has 11 other legs...

(Milton, WI) Jim Dayton, Gazette Vacant, city-owned land in Milton's east-side industrial park is almost gone now that another proposed development has received city council approval. The council unanimously agreed last week to sell 8 acres to Badger Properties for...

(Janesville, WI) Neil Johnson, Gazette Two new stores are set to open this week in the redeveloped former Menards off Pontiac Drive on Janesville’s north side. Tara Furst, commercial properties manager for Galway Companies, which owns the property renamed the...

(Janesville, WI) By Catherine Idzerda, Gazette Six local businesses won the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction’s inaugural Business Friends of Education award. Fagan Automotive, Blackhawk Community Credit Union, Riverfront Inc., South Central Wisconsin...

(Beloit, WI) Austin Montgomery, Beloit Daily News NorthStar Medical radioisotopes has been green-lit by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to proceed with marketing its patented technology to supply products widely used in diagnostic medical imaging for...

(Janesville, WI) Neil Johnson, Gazette The four-story former warehouse in downtown Janesville now known as the Gray Goose has landed a new gander from up north. Local broker Commercial Property Group announced this week that Michigan tech and telecommunications...