Local credit unions have been blooming of late throughout Wisconsin, with major growth in assets and membership. The Gazette examines a recent surge by one Janesville credit union.

Dollar General, which opened a distribution center in Janesville in 2017, presented a check to Van Buren Elementary School on Friday.

ARISEnow and the Janesville Performing Arts Center have nearly hit a $500,000 goal in a community fundraising campaign that will fund improvements to JPAC’s performance and youth education spaces.

The new gas station will be located at the northwest corner of West Memorial Drive and North Washington Street.

The Sears stores at the Janesville Mall will close by early 2019, the mall's owner confirmed on Thursday.

Jim Grafft says he'd sink at least $114,000 into fixing the decaying Monterey Hotel in the city's downtown, according to his latest proposal to the city.

The city of Janesville has not yet dug into Jim Grafft’s latest proposal to fix the decaying Monterey Hotel, but a building code official said Grafft met a deadline to submit a proposal this week that might save the building from demolition.

Steve Preston, a Janesville native who served as a cabinet secretary under President George W. Bush, is set to become the new head of Goodwill International.

The city will start issuing tickets with $15 fines--not just warnings--to those who violate downtown parking restrictions starting Thursday.

Downtown Janesville is drawing a burst of interest by developers and property owners who want to add apartments near the riverfront.

SHINE Medical Technology gives The Gazette a sneak peak inside Building One, its testing facility in Janesville.

SHINE Medical Technologies announced on Thursday afternoon that this week moved the first production accelerator into Building One, its testing, demonstration and staging facility recently completed on Janesville’s far south side.

ARISEnow, a group that’s spurring a privately-funded revival of downtown alongside the city's ARISE revitalization strategy, unveiled a $1.5 million "community" funding campaign at a private business lunch Thursday.

Quint Studer, a former Janesville resident and consulting-mogul-turned-community-fixer, will give a talk on how Janesville can lure and keep people Thursday at the Rock Regional Business Expo.

The owner of the Monterey Hotel has submitted plans to the city of Janesville for repairs to the hulking, deteriorated property in the city’s downtown.

Janesville media company Bliss Communications was honored Thursday with a state award for its work hiring and employing people with disabilities.

A developer confirmed this week that an 8,100-square-foot development in Janesville just west of the Festival Foods supermarket will house a MOD Pizza shop, Kay Jewelers and Stanton Optical.

The owners of IPM Foods plan to operate NaturPak Pet, a new pet food processing and packaging facility in a 160,000-square-foot facility planned on Innovation Drive on Janesville’s south side.

Downtown parking is in a serious state of flux amid a storm of major street tear ups and development projects along the riverfront. Business operators in the middle of it all are concerned about what they say is a sudden shortage of parking near their doors.

South-side barber A.J. Wedding is out to prove that the craft of barbering is not "a hustle," but rather a "profession." He's operating a barber shop with a built-in barber college to give students the skills and knowledge they need to build careers.

SHINE Medical Technologies now has most of the permits necessary to begin construction at its south-side campus following approval Monday from the city plan commission.

Blackhawk Community Credit Union on Friday unveiled plans to build a landmark $30 million development that would include a General Motors "legacy center" on the Rock River just north of Hedberg Public Library.

UW-Whitewater officials announced Thursday a major donation the university said would pay for a new administrator who would work as a liaison between UW-Whitewater and Rock County businesses.

Redevelopment plans unveiled Tuesday show Janesville's former General Motors plant site will rely heavily on an attribute few area industrial sites have: ready-made railroad infrastructure.

Merchants along Janesville's West Milwaukee Street are making plans for how to weather a nine-month period without the Milwaukee Street Bridge. The bridge is slated to be removed and rebuilt starting Oct. 1.

The owner of the former GM plant property plans to unveil "preliminary" redevelopment plans for the 250 acre property at a public open house on Tuesday.

The Monterey Hotel could be slated for demolition based on a raze-or-repair order city officials issued for the iconic building last week.

Diane Hendricks’ commercial real estate firm, Hendricks Commercial Properties, recently closed a $26.5 million package of five Janesville industrial and commercial properties.

The "interactive water feature" and J.P. Cullen Memorial Pavilion were dedicated in ceremonies Wednesday evening along the Rock River in Janesville.

Development of a Meijer supermarket in Delavan inched closer to reality Monday night after the plan commission unanimously decided to recommend the company’s proposal to the Delavan City Council.

A rollback of tariffs on Canadian newsprint might not reverse harm done to the U.S. newspaper industry, but newspaper officials are feeling a sense of victory—and a promise of relief in coming months.

Diamond Assets’ revenue has grown by a gaudy 19,780 percent over the last three years, the company reports. It’s been named the seventh fastest-growing private company in America, according to business magazine Inc.’s prestigious "Inc. 5000" list.

The new owner of the former Daniels Sentry store says about half of the 49 employees who worked at the store will not be rehired when the store reopens Thursday as an IGA supermarket.