JANESVILLE — The Woodman’s Sports and Convention Center got an additional $1 million boost Wednesday from the locally-headquartered grocer tha…
MILTON — Twelve high school students from across southern Wisconsin toiled Monday in their booths during a timed welding contest at Blackhawk …
Inspired by a recent trip to the Lego Store at the Mall of America, Jonathan and Elizabeth Kahn are planning to open a Lego-centric toy store …
Former Crazy Joe's furniture store in Janesville to be remade as self-storage for apartment dwellers
A Minnesota developer plans to fill most of the former Crazy Joe’s furniture store in downtown Janesville with climate-controlled self-storage…
The city of Janesville’s newest tax-increment district is at Center Avenue and Highway 11 on the south side—a swath of land the city hopes wil…
50-50 Factory Outlet, a party supply store on Janesville’s northeast side, is permanently closing after operating 40 years at 3010 Woodlane Dr…
U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin is going to bat for dozens of former Hufcor workers in Janesville, whom she and labor union officials say never got a …
Beloit’s Bird scooter program apparently has been shut down, not by the city, but by the vendor who’d worked for Bird scooter as a contractor …
If plans progress to reactivate as a rail site the long-slumbering former JATCO site, just south of the former main General Motors plant prope…
City officials and private stakeholders remained committed to the idea of building an ice arena and conference center at Uptown Janesville as …
Unemployment rates declined in Janesville, Rock County and most of Wisconsin in July, according to data released Wednesday by the Wisconsin De…
Janesville’s south side, a place notoriously short on fresh food over the past few years, is getting a new grocery option—and it’ll come minus…
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Within a few weeks, Janesville’s downtown and other areas in the city could see an infusion of small electric scooters on streets and sidewalks.
Tanner Stoffreg, owner of Catch the Wave Swim Club in South Beloit, Illinois, details the importance of swimming safety during the summer months.
Fairbanks Morse Defense has been granted an exclusive naval service contract with Ideal Electric Company to maintain engines on U.S. Navy ships.
A global manufacturer of food and pharmaceutical equipment plans to build an 85,000-square-foot equipment repair facility on city land on Jane…
Residents on Janesville's south side don't seem turned off by the idea of a massive strawberry greenhouse operation, but they did speak out ag…
A developer plans to add about 5,200 square feet of floor space to the north and south ends of the vacant, former Clark gas station/convenienc…
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The Gazette took home 23 awards at the annual Wisconsin Newspaper Association Foundation banquet Friday, including Best of Division A, which i…
In its 40th year, Michael’s Cycles in Janesville has withstood the tests of time and a pandemic to continue providing bicycles to riders in Ro…
La Guacamaya is a new Mexican restaurant that opened this year in Clinton.
It took hours, but a massive strawberry greenhouse development proposed on the south side—along with a few smaller future industrial and housi…
Mercyhealth employees represented by a local labor union are poised to walk off the job Friday if the local health care system and the employe…
In a letter Thursday, the state’s lead environmental regulator granted the main GM plant site’s owner, Commercial Development “case closure” …
A developer who has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars converting a former funeral home in downtown Janesville to apartments for people wi…
Jerimiah Lambert specializes in small, button-sized coral that lives, moves, breathes and glows brightly under special lamps in the saline tan…
The Rock County Sheriff’s Office received $70,000 for its anti-heroin and high-intensity drug trafficking efforts during Thursday’s county boa…
Supply chain woes and lack of foot traffic had hampered small specialty bakers for months during the thick of the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, infl…
A Minnesota nonprofit group is eyeing Rock County as a possible site to build a new mobile home park that ultimately would be collectively own…
The final product could likely be at least a year off, but a developer plans to spend $1 million to turn a vacant set of storefronts on downto…
After six years as manager of the Janesville Farmers Market, Emily Arthur is stepping down to pursue the next step in her marketing career.
By July, the city of Janesville could have 245 acres of newly minted TIF district land in its arsenal on the south side and east side.
BELOIT—NorthStar Medical Radioisotopes LLC is expanding, with plans to construct a new building at its campus in the Gateway Business Park.
Roman’s Supermarket is expected to open its doors at 220 Liberty Ave., Beloit, on May 23.
Decisions are a couple months off, but by July the city of Janesville could have 140 acres of industrial-zoned land tacked onto the city’s sou…
The urge for egg rolls has had customers walking up and down the steps of downtown Janesville’s Cozy Inn for 100 years.
Hundreds of patrons came and went Saturday from the Janesville Farmers Market’s season opener, a kickoff that featured an even blend of produc…
Citing accreditation rule changes and a staffing crunch, Mercyhealth officials say the hospital group has shelved its manned, MD-1 emergency v…
The city of Janesville aims to create another tax-increment financing district on its east side, this time blanketing as a new TIF district a …
There are lingering inventory gaps on the floor of the 90,000-square-foot department store, but Janesville’s Kohl’s store has reopened after a…
On Wednesday afternoon, members of the Janesville Fire Department’s tech rescue team had a mission: They were at specialty chemical manufactur…
With the opening of Get Fit 45’s first brick-and-mortar site along Milton Avenue in Janesville, co-owner Nick Larsen is making his dream—and t…
The city of Janesville is giving a hotel development group a boost of up to $1.89 million in a 12 year tax-incentive deal in exchange for a 42…
As SHINE Technologies moves toward medical isotope production in Janesville, the company is fast pivoting into other areas. Most recently, the…
A Rock County judge has OK’d a competency evaluation for an 11-year-old juvenile who is charged with arson after an April 1 fire that has left…
Unless members of the Janesville city council have misgivings over the request, Hy-Vee will be allowed to operate an outdoor patio with alcoho…
Developers of a proposed greenhouse operation on Janesville’s south side said in an interview Tuesday that it would likely be the biggest indo…
A section of North Lexington Drive that’s quickly turning into Grocery Depot will get a new set of four-way stop signs within months under a p…
The city of Janesville on Monday galvanized three big-ticket tax incentive deals totaling $4.7 million that are aimed at landing major, new ma…
All seven Janesville City Council Members endorsed an ad-hoc panel’s recommendations to divvy up $2 million in a new city of Janesville “Pay i…
A 175-acre swath of land on Janesville’s south side that for decades has housed part of a local pheasant farm could house a new, landmark deve…
Milton City Council unanimously passes infrastructure measures for Clasen Quality Chocolates factory
Milton's city council on Wednesday unanimously granted an easement to allow construction of public and private utility lines that will run to …
It could take days or even weeks before the 97,000-square-foot Kohl's retail store at Uptown Janesville can replace inventory and other items …
The Kohl’s store at Uptown Janesville remained closed Monday for the third straight day after an apparent arson left the store and inventory i…
The Janesville City Council voted 5-2 Monday to direct the city to negotiate buying the 100,000-square-foot former Sears building at Uptown Ja…
The Tour of America’s Dairyland bicycle races are set to return to downtown Janesville, but the city’s Town Square Gran Prix will revert to be…
For just one buck, the city could become the new owner of the former Sears store at Uptown Janesville, the site the city's eyeing in a public-…
Dollee Magarotto and daughter Sage Vincent opened The Cozy Bin Store, 524 E. Grand Ave., on March 17 to offer discounted merchandise.
Hy-Vee’s plans to build out a new grocery and restaurant with a drive-thru pharmacy and an online grocery outbuilding off Humes Road and North…
A planned Tru by Hilton hotel at 2702 Pontiac Place has earned the blessing of the city of Janesville’s Plan Commission.
The vacant lot at Milton Avenue and Humes Road on Janesville's northeast side — the hot corner until last year had housed a Perkins restaurant…
The Gazette observes the ins and outs (and the bottlenecks and the shortcuts) while navigating around the retail-heavy stretch of Humes Road t…
Edgerton hospital is using $3.8 million in grant funding it was awarded by the state of Wisconsin to create more space for a new, comprehensiv…
The Pontiac Convention Center has sold for $1.25 million, according to state property records.
A company that makes "meaty" jerky treats for dogs plans to bring 103 jobs to Janesville's south side starting this summer. A tax-incentive de…
Janesville-based farmer Rick Scully found his career through an epiphany in 2011 while communing with nature during a hunting trip in 2011. Si…
The state of Wisconsin recently added $3.3 million in grants and loans to the growing public financing of upgrades set to roll out on a half-m…
Seven minority-owned businesses were able to give pitches for growing their ventures during the inaugural Rock County Jumpstart pitch event We…
Hy-Vee already is humming along on a demolition-to-rehab of the former Shopko on Humes Road in Janesville, but one part of the plan—an outdoor…
A developer's hotel off Pontiac Drive on Janesville’s northeast side has consistently hit 80% room occupancy since 2019, even during the doldr…
A local cheese hauler is a notch closer to having his cheddar and trucking it, too, as long as the Janesville City Council likes a rezoning pl…
This week, construction contractors working for West Des Moines, Iowa, grocery chain Hy-Vee cordoned off the former Shopko property at 2029 Hu…
Janesville’s Westgate Corridor business association is hosting a televised candidate forum at 6 p.m. tonight to press the Janesville City Coun…
Although the Interstate 90/39 expansion project wrapped up last fall, anyone traveling along the Highway 14/Humes Road corridor on Janesville’…
Despite some pushback from a few council members, the city of Janesville plans to chase a $9.3-million federal grant package that could cover …
In Janesville, major internet providers soon will have a new competitor in town.
The city of Janesville might start to fine the owner of the former GM site up to $500 a day as the company apparently continues to ignore city…