(Janesville, WI) Gazette Staff YWCA Rock County will open a new Early Learning Center later this month for 2 and 3- year-olds, the organization announced Tuesday. MORE INFO

(Beloit, WI) Alex Gary, APG A 12-episode A&E series called Betting on Beloit will premiere on July 12, featuring ABC Supply co-founder Diane Hendricks, but focusing more on Hendricks’ daughter, Konya Hendricks Schuh. MORE INFO

(Beloit, WI) Alex Gary, APG The estimated economic impact of tourism in Wisconsin set a record for the third straight year, the Wisconsin Department of Tourism reported Tuesday. MORE INFO

(Janesville, WI) Big Radio / WCLO Another fast food chain specializing in fried chicken rolls the die on Janesville's saturated market. According to signs on the former KFC building at 2425 Milton Avenue, a Church's Texas Chicken restaurant is "coming soon." MORE...

(Beloit, WI) Alex Gary, APG The newest downtown residents at 311 and 317 State Street will begin moving in in mid-July as finishing touches are completed on the State Street Studio Apartments. MORE INFO

(Janesville, WI) Hannah Powell, APG\ Brian Johnson pours himself a steaming mug of coffee as 1950s rock and roll plays in the background at Rockin Rob’s, a 1950s-style diner in a former Dairy Queen at 1532 E. Racine St. MORE INFO

(Beloit, WI) Clint Wolf, BDN Cancer treatment options, new surgical technology and other advances were outlined during the Beloit Health System Corporate Meeting. MORE INFO

(Janesville, WI) Alex Gary, APG Beloit Memorial High School senior Manny Vargas loves to learn — about certain things in certain ways. Vargas was one of 19 students celebrated by the Stateline Manufacturing Alliance Thursday morning at Blackhawk Technical College...

(Beloit, WI) Alex Gary, APG A year after announcing a partnership with Edgewood College of Madison and Beloit Health System that will allow Beloit College to give its students a chance to earn nursing degrees, the college has its first cohort of nursing students. MORE...

(Janesville, WI( Gazette Construction on the Children’s Museum of Rock County will get underway next month in downtown Janesville, the nonprofit organization behind the museum announced Tuesday. MORE INFO