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Hunger Task Force has committed up to $1 million to a new program aimed at providing relief to dairy farmers while supplying area food pantries with milk.

Metropolitan Milwaukee home sales have been "robust" so far this year, with sales up 12.8% in March and 9.3% in the first quarter, according to the Greater Milwaukee Association of Realtors.

Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport was awarded a $29 million grant from the federal government as part of the coronavirus relief package known as the CARES (Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security) Act.

While at least one health system in southeastern Wisconsin saw a spike in admissions of COVID-19 patients on Tuesday, hospitals across the region have not yet exceeded their ICU bed or ventilator capacity. 

The Water Council postponed the BREW accelerator program after seeing a significant drop off in the quality and quantity of applicants for what would have been its 7th cohort.

An elderly male patient in Milwaukee has responded well to a convalescent plasma transfusion after being the first recipient in the Advocate Aurora Health system of an experimental COVID-19 treatment. 

The planned expansion of the Wisconsin Center again has the city's backing following a meeting of the Milwaukee Common Council on Tuesday.

The Milwaukee Brewers and Milwaukee Bucks are lending a hand to part-time workers at Miller Park and Fiserv Forum who are temporarily out of work due the ongoing COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.

As Wisconsin sees a steady slowing of new COVID-19 cases, Medical College of Wisconsin president and chief executive officer Dr. John Raymond said the state still has several benchmarks to meet before it can begin reopening business. 

An employee from Quad/Graphics’ West Allis facility passed away on April 8 from COVID-19, the Sussex-based company said in a statement Monday.