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The state building commission released funding this week totaling $170 million for two major projects on the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee campus.

An emergency department physician at Aurora Sinai Medical Center was the first Advocate Aurora Health employee to receive the COVID-19 vaccine Tuesday.

As Wisconsin health care systems begin to administer the COVID-19 vaccine to their frontline workers this week, employers are preparing for a wider vaccine rollout when supplies become available for their employees in 2021.

In partnership with Microsoft, Wisconsin’s major pro sports teams have formed the Equity League, an investment network focused on building a portfolio of technology companies to create more opportunities for Black and LatinX entrepreneurs.

As we head into 2021, expect Wisconsin tech startups to play a key role in reshaping new markets such as “meat alternatives,” “digital commerce,” and “the future of work” as well as traditional markets such as agriculture, energy, finance, health care and logistics.

Wisconsin received its first allocation of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine today.

More than 200 Wisconsin small businesses will split $3 million in funding for their innovative response to the coronavirus pandemic, the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation recently announced.

The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation announced it has distributed $10 million in grants this year to organizations in Milwaukee and throughout the state.

Milwaukee County officials say they have formally received a $40.9 million federal grant that will allow construction to start this spring on the roughly $55 million bus rapid-transit project.

Winter is here, and full-service restaurants are bracing for what could be the toughest stretch of the COVID-19 crisis yet as positive case counts remain high and diners are leery of eating at a restaurant indoors.