Following four months of construction, the $5.9 million replacement of West Milwaukee Street is at the midway point.
Janesville's business-promotion association will have an interim CEO with a long history in the city as of Sept. 1.
Zach Boutelle recently opened the Pride Athletics and Wellness Studio in downtown Janesville and is looking to help whip the city into shape.
Arrielle Cordero, 30, and her younger sister Ashley Erdman, 26, run and operate Salted Sisters, a coffee shop based out of their small concess…
Whitewater Police Chief Aaron Raap said the arrest of the Pumpers & Mitchell's manager should not affect the bar.
The labor union that represents workers at Janesville’s Hufcor factory is now pressuring Hufcor owner OpenGate Capital with a shame campaign t…
Rock County Jumpstart and Uptown Janesville are joining forces to showcase Black business owners.
Local sellers say emerging bottlenecks in the global supply chain for bicycles and components have some customers hemmed up on bike shop waiti…
The Small Business Administration on Friday announced loans for businesses in drought areas.
On June 28, the Jefferson County Planning and Zoning committee announced that the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin approved the Crawfish…
The Gazette talks with local, rural residents in southern Wisconsin who are witnessing the sudden blooming of a new type of crop—solar power.
As union workers at Janesville’s Hufcor plant continue to face their jobs being farmed out to Monterey, Mexico, U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin of Wis…
In an announcement this week, SHINE officials said a company under the Koch Industries umbrella, Koch Disruptive Technologies, led the pack in…
Recently-hired Forward Janesville CEO Michael Osborne has died days after police said he was seriously injured in a motorcycle accident in Ill…
The Rock County Public Health Department is investigating a recent outbreak of illnesses among several guests who stayed at the Holiday Inn Ex…
Janesville-based arrow maker Isaac Smith hopes to vault his new line of custom hunting arrows into the limelight with the help of hunting vide…
In an announcement Wednesday, Forward Janesville said it has hired investment banker and former manufacturing industry executive Mike Osborne …
Gov. Tony Evers talked about rural broadband access and his frustrations with a Republican-led Legislature when he stopped at the Rebout farm …
Although the Tour of America's Dairyland bike races' stop in Janesville brings thousands of people downtown, not all business operators there …
After a worker shortage, Morgan Truck Body, a Janesville-based manufacturer of medium-duty freight and refrigerated vans and trucks, will be t…
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Gov. Tony Evers and the Wisconsin Department of Transportation announced a Transportation Economic Assistance Grant would fund 25% of a $1 mil…
Janesville's SHINE Medical Technologies has announced a “multiyear” partnership with the University of Missouri Research Reactor in Columbia, …
Local plastics manufacturer GOEX has been riding a wave of increased demand that company officials say has them needing more capacity for more…
Job seekers may now get help in person at local job centers.
A Hufcor spokesperson told The Gazette in an emailed statement Thursday that the company plans to keep its research and development, testing, …
If you don’t already know the name Mr. Splash, you’ll be at least three times likelier to know it later this summer when you’re seeking a near…
Beloit’s leading tourism group says it strongly encourages small, locally-owned businesses to apply for grant funding provided by the State of…
As area students look for summer jobs to earn some extra cash, the job market seems wide open.
At Wildwood Theatres/Movies 16 in Janesville, general manager Sarah Lehr is taking steps to ensure customer safety and comfort.
It's big, yellow, and it's the last medium-duty truck that ever rolled off the line at Janesville's General Motors Assembly plant. The GMC dum…
It’s no parking deck, but downtown Janesville could pick up a handful of new parking spots over the Rock River if the city council approves a …
In tandem with SHINE Medical Technologies' ongoing build out of a nuclear medicine production factory in Janesville, the company has chosen Ve…
The manager of Woodman's Food Market in Janesville said customers were inquiring all day Friday whether they still had to wear masks in the st…
Even though the ongoing pandemic may bring hurdles to new businesses for months—and even as the city's west-side downtown grinds through its s…
A Rock County Board committee wants the county to eliminate a COVID-19 vaccine mandate at its Rock Haven nursing home and reinstate several nu…
After delays, changes in leadership and more, the Humane Society of Southern Wisconsin is ready to start building its new home south of Janesv…
The Janesville Athletic Club will still keep spaces for tennis, racquetball and pickleball buffs, but in its revamped fieldhouse, the emphasis…
Janesville Town Square Gran Prix organizers announced the city will host two days of cycling races June 17 and 18 to kick off the Tour of Amer…
Vendors and managers at the Janesville Farmer's Market said the market's first day of the season on Saturday at its new location at the downto…
Fairbanks Morse has changed its name to Fairbanks Morse Defense (FMD), which will serve as the umbrella company for its different units.
Stoughton Trailers expects a major upswing in production and a hiring spree to match after the U.S. government slapped a five-year tariff on s…
Fairbanks Morse Defense is planning to move its headquarters offfices from the Beloit manufacturing facility to a site in downtown Beloit.
Blain’s Farm & Fleet will hold a grand opening weekend celebration for its new Monroe store beginning Friday, April 30.
In Rock County, you now might be able to find your lost dog or cat through a national network that uses facial recognition technology to help …
A police tactical trainer has launched a new technology in Whitewater that uses lasers to project animated signs on walls of buildings. The sy…
In separate developments, Beloit nuclear medicine producer NorthStar Medical Radioisotopes and its competitor, Janesville-based SHINE Medical …
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…
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.