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It’s a mixed bag for the Milwaukee metro area when it comes to economic indicators tied to innovation.

Theresa Nemetz, the founder and president of Great Lakes Shore Excursions and Milwaukee Food & City Tours, will receive the Regional Spirit Award at BizTimes Media’s annual Innovation + Entrepreneurship Forum, to be held on Dec. 8 at the Italian Community Center in Milwaukee.

Wauwatosa-based real estate company Wangard Partners today named 10 businesses that will be tenants at Converge, a new innovation hub at the Eagleknit building in Milwaukee’s Walker’s Point neighborhood.

Oldenburg Group founder Wayne Oldenburg will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at the BizTimes Media Innovation + Entrepreneurship Forum on Dec. 8 at the Italian Community Center in Milwaukee. Click here to register.

The Ruth Foundation for the Arts has pledged $11.5 million to 138 arts organizations across the country, the Milwaukee-based nonprofit announced today. 

A Racine startup that seeks to make short-term rentals a real-life marketplace has now been backed by Milwaukee-based venture capital firm Gateway Capital.

Container Life Cycle Management (CLCM) will pay $1.65 million as part of a pre-suit settlement with the state and U.S. departments of justice after the company allegedly made clean air and hazardous materials violations.

Wisconsin lost 1,600 private sector jobs in October and the state’s labor force participation rate continued to fall, according to the latest data released by the state Department of Workforce Development.

On the latest episode of the Leadership Lens podcast, Jonas Prising, chairman and CEO of Milwaukee-based ManpowerGroup, joins Marquette...

Home sales in the four-county metro Milwaukee area fell 29% in October, year-over-year, and 26.3% in the greater southeastern Wisconsin region, according to the latest report from the Greater Milwaukee Association of Realtors.