The former speaker of the House of Representatives will be a member of the board of directors for Fox Corp., the company announced Tuesday.

Job growth has been a slog in some local segments of the manufacturing sector in the decade since the collapse of Janesville's automaking industry. But a few sectors in local manufacturing—namely the food manufacturing industry--are riding a recent wave of growth that is building back factory jobs in Rock County.

Ashley Furniture plans to open a new, hybrid showroom and outlet store along Humes Road in Janesville.

It is the top award among all daily newspapers in the state and comes despite The Gazette being moved to compete in a category of larger newspapers.

A creditor is suing the owner of Boardtracker Harley-Davidson in Janesville and another dealership in suburban Milwaukee for a total of $6.3 million.

Janesville Mall officials insist things are better than they appear. For starters, the mall is not closing, they said.

Manufacturing remains the top employment sector in Rock County more than a decade after GM's assembly plant in Janesville closed, but it has begun to transform into a warehousing and logistics hub thanks to its location on the state line, Interstate 90/39 running through it and the network of smaller highways that connect nearby communities.

More web-based restaurant-food delivery services seem interested in Janesville, raising questions about costs.

SHINE Medical Technologies in Janesville and NorthStar Medical Radioisotopes in Beloit are among four U.S. medical moly-99 startups that can “begin negotiations with the federal agency for potential new cooperative agreement awards” totaling up to $15 million.

Blain’s Farm & Fleet has started work on a new 106,000-square-foot store in Holland, Michigan, as part of its continued expansion into the Mitten State.

Discount shoe seller Payless ShoeSource plans to close all 2,300 of its stores under an anticipated move into bankruptcy, sources say. A local manager said Friday she hadn't heard from Payless on its plans.

The Beloit Shopko store will lose 58 employees and the Delavan store will lose 52, according to a state notice issued Wednesday. Both stores will begin letting employees go around May 6. 

The spring thaw can’t come soon enough for a few local businesses just west of the dismantled Milwaukee Street bridge.

The former 1st Congressional District representative will speak at Forward Janesville's annual dinner.

The long-awaited Children’s Museum of Rock County could finally be getting a home—at the Janesville Mall.

A needy family got the gift of a free car Friday at a Janesville auto body shop.

The Beloit and Delavan Shopko stores are set to close in May, the company announced Thursday.

Generac announced Tuesday in a news release that it plans to open a distribution center using the bulk of the 500,000-square-foot former John Deere facility at 2900 Beloit Ave. on Janesville's south side.

The Janesville Mall will have one fewer location where customers can stop to sniff scented candles. It appears the Yankee Candle store at the mall, 2500 Milton Ave., is set to close.

Gary Bersell is ending a nearly 50-year career working with people with disabilities. The executive director of Janesville’s KANDU Industries is retiring at the end of June after 13 years with the agency.

The city and current property owners are nearing a deal with an out-of-state buyer to purchase and give a face-lift to a stretch of mostly vacant buildings in downtown Janesville.

Janesville banker Larry Squire will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from Forward Janesville this week. Squire talked about leadership, Janesville and his earlier experiences as a strawberry farmer.

The plan commission Monday night voted 5-1 to rezone part of the former Pick ‘n Save building on Center Avenue from a commercial site to light industrial.

As the city council considers restoring an old policy to encourage single-family home development, here's a look at five subdivisions and how they've fared since the recession.

Shopko plans to close nine of its stores in Wisconsin by April, according to a Wednesday bankruptcy filing in a Nebraska federal court. The Janesville and Beloit Shopko stores are not affected

Developers say Meijer is likely to finalize the purchase of 28 acres in Delavan on Monday, but it's unclear when construction could begin on the company's planned 159,000-square-foot grocery store.

At least one vacant storefront in the Pine Tree Plaza on Janesville’s east side could get a makeover to ready it for a new retail business—a HomeGoods store, according to city of Janesville documents.

A relative newcomer to Janesville is jumping into the digital grocery shopping market with a program to deliver online grocery orders straight to homes.

A new kind of automobile fuel is being sold at local gas stations, but car owners should read their manuals before using it.

Even if a new state loosens oversight for companies who get state tax-incentive packages tied to job creation, one city of Janesville official said local oversight of city tax-incentive deals won't change.

Members of public-private downtown revitalization group ARISEnow showed off designs for a pedestrian bridge that will span the Rock River as part of a presentation to show how revival has begun to take root in downtown Janesville.

ARISEnow plans a public reveal Tuesday of plans for a privately-funded pedestrian bridge it’s tackling alongside the city's ARISE downtown riverfront revitalization strategy.

Oil-producing countries were preparing for a shortage, but when the U.S. waived sanctions on Iranian crude oil, the market suddenly had a surplus. The result: The lower gas prices consumers are seeing now. But no one is sure how long prices will stay low.