Economy

Three of Wisconsin’s major electric utilities are asking state regulators to allow them to raise their electric rates in 2026 and 2027. The Public Service Commission of Wisconsin approved rate hikes for those same utilities in 2023.

The company has not yet made a public announcement, and local leaders have not disclosed the developer behind the project.

Negotiations are resuming around moving Green Bay’s downtown coal piles after previous proposals were rejected. Efforts by local leaders to move the massive coal piles have been ongoing for decades.

The head of Wisconsin’s preeminent business advocacy group says they’re not sure how a rash of steep tariffs on global trading partners will affect companies in the dairy state.

Amid rising boycotts of major companies, the owners of Bound to Happen Books in Stevens Point and WordHaven Bookhouse in Sheboygan find themselves uniquely poised to meet the political moment.

The largest planned development in the area is the mixed-use Village Center project.

In western Wisconsin, an online design library offers the local community ideas to build small housing units on the existing property of a home.

Wisconsin consumers will likely pay more for goods imported from dozens of countries that will now be taxed at higher rates under tariffs announced by President Donald Trump this week.

We Energies is asking state utility regulators to approve special rates for data centers that would require those users to pay for infrastructure built for their developments.

Wisconsin leaders are reacting to Trump tariffs with tempered optimism, concern or outright castigation.