Economy

A brewery on the banks of the Milwaukee River hosted a roundtable discussion between tool distributors, farmers, roofers, craft brewers and U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin on Monday.

Officials in Milwaukee want to pass a city ordinance that would ban the sale of hookah products to anyone under the age of 21.

The latest data shows producers intend to put a lot fewer acres of soybeans in the ground, amid retaliatory tariffs from China and higher production costs.

The shifting rollout of Trump’s tariffs has made it hard for manufacturers to plan for the future. 

“The sooner this can conclude, the sooner that the entire strategy plays out and we end up with whatever the result will be, the better,” Johnson told WPR’s “Wisconsin Today.”

After announcing a major workforce reduction at the beginning of the year, Air Wisconsin is planning another round of layoffs affecting more than 100 people.

Milwaukee-based finance writer Emily Guy Birken says recent stock market fluctuations are unlike anything she’s seen, but there are still ways to prepare for retirement.

A new bipartisan bill aims to incentivize housing developments in rural Wisconsin.

As the stock markets around the world have shown, changes to tariffs have far-reaching effects, such as in northwest Wisconsin, with the Port of Duluth-Superior being a major import and export hub.

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.