The city council on Monday gave its blessing for city staff to access up to $2 million to spend on contracts for architectural designs for a t…
The Janesville City Council will consider spending up to $2 million on designs for a project that would replace the former Sears store at the …
Officials from Janesville’s parks division say a consultant has recommended completely replacing Palmer Park’s aging, circa-1936 wading pool w…
It might be hard for some to remember that West Milwaukee actually is one of the city’s major arterial streets downtown, considering that part…
A county board committee voted against a plan for housing sexually violent offenders Monday, but the proposal could still be approved by the f…
A public-private housing project could convert an aging downtown storefront in Edgerton to apartments geared specially for military veterans a…
A Rock County committee recommends a duplex be built to house sexually violent offenders who are released from the state's treatment center.
The property tax rate levied by Rock County could decrease by 7% for residents in 2022, with major budget decisions still undecided by the Roc…
The Rock County board has authorized a probe of its child welfare system in the wake of recent concerns raised by foster parents and others ov…
Like private employers, counties, cities and other municipalities have had trouble filling open work positions.
Travelers on Milton Avenue/Highway 26 have experienced traffic backups in recent weeks, but the problem should be fixed by Oct. 31, a DOT spok…
The City of Milton City Administrator discusses the need for a request for proposals for a potential fire and EMS referendum at the City's Com…
It might have taken a surprise hit of employee turnover and increases to fees and wheel taxes to fund city roadwork, but the city of Janesvill…
Lanes along Milton Avenue will be closed for concrete repairs starting this week, according to a city of Janesville news release.
A construction project that has left the main entryway to the plaza at Janesville City Hall torn up and cordoned off from the public for a lon…
The Rock County Board on Thursday night voted on new supervisory district boundaries that will affect the spring 2022 elections.
The Rock County Veterans Service Department will close its Beloit office and operate its Janesville office in a limited capacity as staff unde…
The Rock County Board faces a difficult decision on redistricting at a meeting Thursday night.
State officials say they are still considering legal action in connection with the introduction of dangerous levels of arsenic into the city w…
Even with federal public health guidance now recommending people receive COVID-19 vaccine booster doses, the scope and rollout of the addition…
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The Milton Joint Fire Commission met via Zoom on Sep. 22 to discuss the fire department's month, bookkeeping services and more.
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The town of Rock is looking into whether it should allow ATV and UTV riders to use its roads.
The Milton School District was stymied last month in its effort to stop its insurance company from paying legal expenses of former school boar…
Janesville City Council members say they hope the public has enough time to digest a new, local road funding scheme this fall before council m…
The city of Whitewater is asking anyone visiting its buildings—vaccinated or not—to wear masks.
As of Tuesday, 19 inmates of the Rock County Jail were isolated after testing positive for the disease, said Capt. Kim Litsheim, assistant jai…
More in-person hearings are scheduled to start in October at the Rock County Courthouse, even as COVID-19 activity remains high in in the area…
The Human Services Board allowed foster parents and others to ask the board and Human Services Department officials pointed questions about wh…
When James Small drives through Palmyra, people often wave.
Lori Stottler, a former Rock County clerk and now Beloit's city clerk, has been hired as the city of Janesville's new city clerk-treasurer
A Janesville city council member has yanked a proposal to repeal the city’s longstanding retail liquor separation law after he said a set of p…
Ten residents of the Rock County Jail tested positive for COVID-19 in recent days.
Janesville police are holding an annual event with food and fun at the Rockvale Mobile Home Park on Tuesday.
Rock County's Human Services director said she thinks that local residents and the media have inflated the scope of turnover problems and inef…
Change could be coming to the Janesville city ordinance that requires retailers to separate much of their alcohol sales from the rest of their…
Rock County has seen 17,112 cases and 188 deaths due to COVID-19, with the seven-day average for the county at 139 new cases per 100,000 residents.
A group of students from UW-Milwaukee will work with township officials and interview residents this fall to research possibilities for a town…
New 2020 census numbers released last week show growth in Rock and Walworth counties' minority populations.
A group of local foster parents, teachers and county Child Protective Services workers are asking the Rock County Board to launch an internal …
Terry Calkins raises and sells aquarium fish and shrimp out of his Janesville home. Lately, his fish tanks have begun to get overtaken by alga…
A group of Wisconsin Democrats are calling for the state to legalize marijuana, with the authors of the bill saying legalization would be a ma…
One Janesville city council member said he considers dogs running (and doing their business) inside cemeteries a “desecration” of land that's …
Wisconsin Democrats will announce new legislation on Tuesday, Aug. 10 at the Sunnyside Dispensary in South Beloit.
Alliant and a partner could launch groundwork as soon as this week on a 440-acre solar project in the town of Fulton.
The city of Janesville Clerk-Treasurer's Office at City Hall will reopen Tuesday after being closed last week following a city employee testin…
Rep. Bryan Steil, R-1st District, held a listening session Monday in Janesville.
Janesville Fire Department Deputy Chief Jim Ponkauskas has been named interim chief of the fire department as the current chief, Ernie Rhodes,…
Steil will listen to constituents in Janesville and East Troy on Monday.
The city of Janesville has shuttered the Clerk-Treasurer’s Office at City Hall until further notice after an employee apparently tested positi…
Rock County Board Chairman Richard Bostwick decided Tuesday to partially open a set of committee meetings to interview candidates for a recent…
Nine new officers are set to undergo training before patrolling Janesville's streets.
Rep. Conley plans to introduce bill that would require drugmakers to report prescription price hikes
Wisconsin state Assembly Rep. Sue Conley, D-Janesville, plans to reintroduce a bill that would force pharmaceutical companies to notify the st…
A bipartisan bill championed by Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-WI, to strengthen protections of crime victims has passed, and Rock County organizations…
After he resigns his post in Janesville in August, Janesville Fire Chief Ernie Rhodes will become chief of the Clayton, Missouri Fire Department.
A supervisor in Janesville's Parks Division has contacted the state Department of Natural Resources and state entomologists about how to proce…
Rep. Bryan Steil issued a statement last week about his fundraising success after a Democrat declared she will run against him.
Six candidates are in the running for the Rock County Board of Supervisors' District 23 seat after Doug Wilde resigned in June.
The Green County Board has approved an ordinance that will eventually lead to allowing ATVs on certain county roads
Janesville Fire Chief Ernie Rhodes plans to resign in August even as fire protection agreements between the cities of Janesville and Milton co…
A Wisconsin government watchdog claims the Rock County Board of Supervisors' administrators might be violating the state open meetings law reg…
The Rock County Jail is no longer quarantining all new inmates, raising concerns among inmates.
As the city of Milton considers taking on more of the cost of fire protection as provided by the city of Janesville, officials want to know if…
A study commissioned by the city of Milton found that the city would be best served financially by a long-term fire and emergency services mer…
Two Janesville women endorse Sarah Godlewski for U.S. Senate.
Intense heat from burning semitrailer trucks damaged pavement, leading to long delays in reopening Interstate 90/39 on Monday and Tuesday, off…
The U.S. House Appropriations Committee recently passed bipartisan language on a bill aimed at improving the management of wild horses and burros.
The Small Business Administration on Friday announced loans for businesses in drought areas.
Rep. Don Vruwink, D-Milton, was one of four Assembly Democrats who joined the Republicans in approving a state budget Tuesday.
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…
The city of Janesville has made no final decisions on how it might spend the $11.68 million it’ll receive in federal American Rescue Plan fund…