A developer plans 62 new homes in the Newville area in northern Rock County.
Tricoci University of Beauty Culture will hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony Monday, April 19, to mark the opening of a new spa at the Janesville campus.
The East Milwaukee Street corridor in Janesville soon could have not one new Kwik Trip store, but two.
Cedar Crest retirement community is finally expanding after a year in which it earned city approval and waited out the coronavirus pandemic.
There are no longer any Sullivans operating Janesville's long-running Sullivan Signs, but two employees are keeping the shop going.
Charter Spectrum has opened a new customer service and retail center off Milton Avenue that will replace the former Spectrum service facility …
The Gazette talks with Janesville Panera Bread restaurant manager Tom Widner about the state of the restaurant industry along the Milton Avenu…
The Ho-Chunk Nation sees a bright future in Beloit in the wake of Gov. Tony Evers' approval of its casino plans, but it and other tribes are d…
Commercial real estate broker Barry Badertscher confirmed Wednesday that a Jersey Mike’s Subs franchise will fill a space at 2228 Humes Road t…
The Janesville theater's plans for reopening have changed due, in part, to the postponed release of the film "Black Widow."
Cozumel Mexican Restaurant manager Miguel Lopez says carryout margaritas, something Wisconsin law now allows, probably won’t backfill a 30% di…
Three power companies hope to lower their fossil-fuel emissions with the purchase of a large solar project in the towns of Darien and Bradford.
A ribbon-cutting Monday will celebrate the return of drive-thru burgers and fries in Milton.
The leader of The Gazette’s newsroom for the past six years will retire in April.
The Ho-Chunk Nation's $405 million Beloit casino and resort project took a major step forward Wednesday when Gov. Tony Evers agreed with a fed…
The food drive-thru likely would be run by an independent operator, not a chain, and likely would have morning and daytime hours.
In April, Courtney Perakis is bringing back a slice of old timey sweetness with The Sugar Exchange, a new candy shop and classic ice cream and…
Generations of customers have crossed the doorway of Janesville's downtown bar at 11 N. Main St.
A landmark sign first installed in the neon 1950s will make a luminous return to the side of the YMCA building in downtown Janesville sometime…
Paquita Purnell and several other tenants say they’re removing their booths from a south-side vintage mall after a vendor at the mall’s sister…
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The council largely applauded the projects, which will add $16.15 million in new property value, according to city projections.
Public libraries in Rock and Walworth counties now are offering training courses online through LinkedIn Learning.
The Vintage Shop Hop runs Friday and Saturday at shops throughout Wisconsin and Illinois, including numerous shops in the Janesville area.
Layers of frozen snow still cover the ground, but come the spring thaw, three developers could break ground on four new industrial facilities …
Project managers for the upcoming replacement of West Milwaukee Street gave downtown businesses some details Tuesday about the project timelin…
Hormel's Beloit food processing plant has begun offering on-site COVID-19 vaccines to its 400 employees, a representative said.
The Whitcomb-Lynch Funeral Home has changed its name to Apfel Wolfe Funeral Home a year after new owners bought the Janesville mortuary service.
Businesses in Janesville's westside downtown are working on strategies to continue to drive customer traffic during a full rebuild of West Mil…
The former speaker of the House of Representatives from Janesville has joined the private equity investment firm Solamere Capital.
Restaurateur Matt Kealy talks with The Gazette about the difficult choice he announced this week: closing Kealy's Kafe, a restaurant he has wo…
If some city officials and city council members want to bring a proposed transportation utility to a vote within the next month, they’ll likel…
The Gazette on Friday was named overall Newspaper of the Year by the Wisconsin Newspaper Association for the sixth consecutive year.
Janesville foodies have lost a local bakery that some call iconic. Bob Hiller's long-running Rollin Pin Bakery has closed for good, his family says.
Despite recent breathtakingly cold, snowy weather, local Realtors say the housing market here has continued to move at a blistering-hot pace.
Builder, civic activist and philanthropist Bob Kimball of Janesville died Monday at age 88.
A Forward Janesville poll shows almost three-quarters of the organization's members support a Rock County masking order, and some said they’d …
Paquita Purnell of Blessed Divine Creations says she looks forward to hosting the third annual Black Women in Business Expo along with two oth…
Rep. Bryan Steil, R-Janesville, toured KANDU Industries in Janesville on Monday to highlight a provision in the latest COVID-19 package that c…
Clasen Quality Chocolate is another step closer to building its 390,000-square-foot facility in Milton with the approval of an at-grade public…
When James Churchill sees snowfalls like the kind Rock County's had this winter, it makes him glad his trucking company no longer plows snow. …
The city's Alcohol License Advisory Committee on Tuesday recommended approval of a class B liquor license for Miss Tequila's, a Mexican restau…
Some local resale shop operators said they had expected continued hits to their businesses as the COVID-19 pandemic rolls on. But some are see…
The decision to remove a quota system for liquor stores doesn't mean Janesville will become swamped with too many booze outlets, a city official says.
As local private and municipal economic development officials peer into the crystal ball of a new year, they say one new prospect is coming in…
After months of adapting to COVID-19's blows to his Whitewater barbecue restaurant, Mike Hudec plans to fight the pandemic via expansion. This…
GLW Technologies, a Janesville 3-D printing company, says some of the specialized plastic parts it creates here could wind up on vehicles that…
County Administrator Josh Smith said the county has drawn a hard line on vaccination at the county-run nursing home.
The Rock County money was delivered through 1,137 awards. Some businesses received more than one award.
A manufacturer of screens for homes, backyards, large venues and golf simulators plans to begin construction on a new 50,625-square-foot facil…
NorthStar Medical Radioisotopes marked another milestone Wednesday as the company announced it had received a fifth federal approval for parts…
Barstool Sports has committed to supporting Janesville's Gray Brewing Co. with $20,000 a month.
Owner Amanda Stefl plans to move the winery north of its location off Storrs Lake Road to a larger space on John Paul Road in the town of Milton.
The state's chamber of commerce is seeking information from Rock County health officials on how they track COVID-19 cases in the county after …
As Janesville waits for the former General Motors site to move into a redevelopment phase, the city has gotten passed over for two industrial …
Lois Stritt’s husband, Jack, died a few days before she became the new owner of Bradley’s Department Store in 2010. Heartbroken, Stritt found …
South Beloit's Sunnyside cannabis dispensary has had a successful first year, and city officials say they hope the development could lead to f…
Starting Friday, Jan. 1, Old Fashion Bakery's Beloit and Janesville locations will be open Sundays rather than Saturdays, according to a news release.
The former General Motors site in Janesville continues to sit idle, and that trend likely will continue for months as the owner of the former …
With the annexation of 115 acres from the town of Milton and approval of a tax increment finance agreement, Clasen Quality Chocolate moves clo…
State data shows that the number of permits for new single-family housing starts jumped by more than 50% this year in Rock County. In some spo…
Luke's Deli owner Luke Karrels won a state grant for innovations at his diner aimed at battling the impacts of COVID-19. The revamps include a…
Forward Janesville, the city’s main chamber of commerce, is accepting applicants to “Let it Glow, Let it Glow, Let it Glow”—a new holiday ligh…
A Christmas tree lot on West Delavan Drive has served generations of Janesvillians.
The city of Milton is taking steps to facilitate the development of a chocolate factory that initially could bring in 60 jobs.
Weed Man Lawn Care of Janesville collected thousands of pounds of food for the needy this fall.
Janesville tourism and hospitality insiders hope a COVID-19 vaccine will be the antidote to the agony local hotels have felt this year. This w…
A children’s museum long in the works might find a home in downtown Janesville—possibly in the vacant, historic former First National Bank property.
Few might view a raging pandemic, tepid economy, lingering unemployment and a contested presidential election as the sort of tea leaves that f…
The early bird gets the worm. That’s the theory behind a new option Gazette readers have this year: a predawn, early-bird shot at getting a co…
Frank Beverage Group, the parent company of Frank Beer Distributors and Beer Capitol Distributing, is expected to acquire beer wholesaler Ott …
One local restaurateur said he thinks the state should shut down all businesses for two weeks to stem the COVID crisis.
The Georgia-based fast food chicken chain plans to build a 5,000-square-foot restaurant in the parking lot of Blain's Farm & Fleet at Hume…
Copper Fire Tees, an apparel screen printing tenant at Janesville's Innovation Center has seen massive growth through e-commerce over the last…
Hundreds of newly-built apartments in Janesville are now coming available in Janesville, and hundreds more could be on the way.
The city's Alcohol License Advisory Committee recommends that the city council give a class A liquor license to a planned Kwik Trip store on E…
Blain’s Farm & Fleet owner Jane Blain Gilbertson has made a zoning request on the part of a developer for a 5,000-square-foot Chick-fil-A …
Alliant Energy plans two new solar farms in Rock and Green counties. They are part of an explosion in commercial solar development.
On Timber Hill’s outdoor patio, owner Amanda Stefl has erected two 10-foot-wide plastic domes and outfitted them for groups of four or so gues…
Rep. Bryan Steil on Wednesday announced endorsements by some farmers.
A national ticket vendor who hasn’t paid Janesville beer festival FlannelFest for ticket proceeds for its February 2020 festival said it inten…