Economy

“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.

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.