(Beloit, WI) Jacob Roushia, BDN An ordinance allowing smaller house sizes in the city was approved recently by the city council. Homes can be built narrower than 25 feet and less than 1,000 square feet under the new ordinance, which was approved by the council...

(Beloit, WI) Clint Wolf, BDN PlayMonster, the game and toy making company based in Beloit, came home this weekend with a national Toy of the Year award in the Specialty Toy category. MORE INFO

(Beloit, WI) Jacob Roushia, BDN Renovation work at the Colonel Robert H. Morse Library on the Beloit College campus is expected to be complete by the summer of 2024. MORE INFO

(Edgerton, WI) Ryan Spoehr, APG The Edgerton Hospital Healing Garden has for years been a place of tranquility. Now, it’s also a place of growth—for tomatoes, sun gold cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, basil and white eggplant. Earlier this year, the hospital started...

(Janesville, WI) Neil Johnson, Gazette At Humes Road and Milton Avenue, traffic is flowing again, albeit in an altered pattern that might surprise those who haven’t traveled the corridor in a while, and it links into a much-upgraded busy retail spur. MORE INFO

(Beloit, WI) Jacob Roushia, BDN Saws are buzzing, hammers are pounding and buildings are going up in downtown Beloit, as several Hendricks Commercial Properties projects are advancing. MORE INFO

(Beloit, WI) BDN Staff Beloit College moved up three spots in the U.S. News & World Report ranking of colleges offering the best value, and it ranked 11th for students’ First Year Experience. MORE INFO

(Beloit, WI) Jacob Roushia, BDN Roman’s Supermarket opened its doors on Aug. 31 and brought an independent grocery store to Liberty Avenue. MORE INFO

(Milton, WI) Ryan Spoehr, APG The city of Milton might soon sell all the remaining land in its Crossroads Industrial Park. City Administrator Al Hulick has not given a timetable on when he believes all sales might be closed, but said “it’s probably not too far off.”...

(Janesville, WI) Neil Johnson, Gazette In a public junket Wednesday on the south side, site owner Commercial Development Company and two commercial freight operators unveiled some details of a plan to convert 30 of the 122-acre JATCO acres to an intermodal freight...