Economy

Canadian billboards calling out tariffs from the Trump administration have been spotted in Wisconsin. 

Gov. Tony Evers is trying to recruit displaced federal workers to Wisconsin following mass layoffs by the Trump Administration.

In 2016, Wisconsin’s neighboring state created the first in-prison trade school, and it has since been replicated across the nation. Gov. Tony Evers wants to turn Waupaun’s prison into a similar facility.

Dozens of people are calling on state utility regulators to block key pieces of a more than $2 billion plan to build new natural gas infrastructure in southeast Wisconsin.

Economic development officials in Milwaukee, Madison and Green Bay say those efforts are important to addressing Wisconsin’s long-standing labor shortage and preventing future population declines.

A new initiative in Milwaukee County provides temporary housing and supportive services for people who were recently incarcerated.

The biggest of the Soo Locks has opened ahead of schedule this year, signaling the start of Lake Superior’s shipping season.

Some fired federal workers in Wisconsin are already receiving back pay after being reinstated, but other employees are still awaiting payment or have been placed on paid leave.

Wisconsin workers may be among the most at risk in the nation as other countries begin to impose retaliatory tariffs.

On a swath of ex-farmland slated for future phases of the project in Mount Pleasant, Microsoft’s preliminary work was paused in January — then restarted — and now paused again.