(Rock County, WI) According to the quarterly release of the Rock Ready Index, the economy of Janesville-Beloit MSA kicked-off the new year in a positive manner – as the momentum from 2017 definitely carried over into the beginning of 2018. Highlights from the Q1...

(Janesville, WI) Jake Magee, Gazette At the corner of Milwaukee and Franklin streets, Bill Sodemann’s business, Phone Plus, sits in the heart of an area anticipating $42 million in public and private investment. City officials said the city’s investment in downtown...

(Milton, WI) Badger Property Investments (BPI) will soon break ground on a 60,000 SF build-to-suit project in Milton's Crossroads Business Park. The building will be leased by SSI Technologies, Inc., a global leader in designing and manufacturing pressure, level and...

(Evansville, WI) Ashley McCallum, Gazette Downtown Evansville’s smile has been missing a tooth for a while, Dave Olsen of local investment firm Grove Partners said Tuesday. By the end of this year, that missing tooth—site of the former Night Owl Food and Spirits—will...

(Janesville, WI) Gazette Staff SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital-Janesville has received the highest safety rating for the third consecutive year from the Leapfrog Group, according to a news release. MORE INFO

(Janesville, WI) Hillary Gavan, Beloit Daily News Rock County 5.0, Blackhawk Technical College and the Southwest Wisconsin Workforce Development Board are offering a new internship program to provide students with work experience and employers with future employees....

(Janesville, WI) Jake Magee, Gazette Five years since opening its doors to entrepreneurs in 2013, the Janesville Innovation Center will be self-sufficient this year after the city stopped subsidizing it in 2017, the center’s operations manager told the Janesville City...

(Janesville, WI) Neil Johnson, Gazette Foremost Media CEO Jon Ballard said he can picture the future for a few incoming high school seniors he plans to host this summer under a new internship program. MORE INFO

(Beloit, WI) Hillary Gavan, Beloit Daily News Parents looking to keep their kids challenged this summer might want to consider sending them to one of CareerTek's many free academies.  MORE INFO

(Beloit, WI) Austin Montgomery, Beloit Daily News NorthStar Medical Radioisotopes is preparing to ramp up production following federal approval earlier this year, and on Tuesday the company put the U.S. and the international health care community on notice. MORE INFO