Government & Politics

Gov. Tony Evers on Tuesday announced a portion of the State Building Commission’s approval of $306 million in funds for projects will go toward creating a new state crime lab in Wauwatosa, replacing the current facility in Milwaukee.

Plans are moving forward to close two youth correctional facilities in Wisconsin and replace them with a new facility that will be built in Milwaukee. On Tuesday, Gov. Tony Evers announced a new juvenile prison is pegged to be built on Milwaukee’s northwest side at 7930 W. Clinton Ave.

Milwaukee will get another chance to host a national political convention when the Republican National Convention comes to town in 2024.

Following a December oil spill that occurred at Komatsu Mining Corp.’s facility at 4400 W. National Ave. in West Milwaukee, the company has entered the final stage of wrapping up their cleanup project with the DNR.

Nine multi-family affordable housing projects located in the city of Milwaukee have been allocated $15.3 million in tax credits.

A Republican National Committee site selection committee today recommended Milwaukee to be the host city for the 2024 Republican National Convention, according to reports. A major step, but not the final one, towards Milwaukee hosting the convention.

A group of Wauwatosa residents, through the organization Underwood Neighbors United, have filed a lawsuit against the city’s Board of Appeals, challenging the most recent approval of the Drew Tower project.

After first announcing plans for an automated grocery and home-delivery facility in Pleasant Prairie in November of 2019, Kroger Co.’s new fulfillment center officially opened this week.

Slinger-based MBW, Inc., a manufacturer of compaction and concrete construction equipment, is planning to expand operations by building a new research and development facility. MBW currently operates at 250 Hartford Road.

A Marquette University faculty member has been named the recipient of a $4.2 million Department of Energy Grant. Adam Dempsey, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering in the Opus College of Engineering, will use the funding to further research technology to be used in lean-burn natural gas engines.