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Milwaukee is part of a 19-city, $27 million collaboration announced by the National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA) and Wells Fargo Bank, that will provide funds to foster homeownership, assist with rebuilding minority neighborhoods impacted by the foreclosure crisis, and “promote diverse, inclusive communities.”

Partnership Bank announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the two Ozaukee County bank branches operated by Oak Creek-based Tri City National Bank.

Waterstone Financial Inc., the parent company for WaterStone Bank SSB, announced that it will be reorganized, changing from a bank mutual holding company to a fully public stock holding company.

The Wisconsin Bankers Association has named Thomas Pamperin, president and CEO of Premier Community Bank in Marion, as its new board chair for 2013-2014.

Brookfield-based Diversified Insurance Services has changed its name to Diversified Insurance Solutions.

Home sales in the metropolitan Milwaukee market increased 14.7 percent in May compared with the same month a year earlier.

"Les Paul: The Wizard of Waukesha" opened in Waukesha Sunday.

A judge in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware today approved the final sale of Waukesha's Golden Guernsey Dairy LLC to Morton Grove, Ill.-based Lifeway Foods Inc.

The effort to establish Milwaukee as a global hub of freshwater research, technology and innovation received another boost today when Kikkoman Foods Inc., a subsidiary of Tokyo-based Kikkoman Corp., announced that it will make a $1 million contribution to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee to, “advance the study of safe and sustainable drinking water.”

Husco International announced today it is embarking on a multi-year, $45 million capital expansion project at its Wisconsin facilities in Waukesha and Whitewater, an endeavor that is expected to create more than 150 permanent new jobs in the state by 2015.