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Pleasant Prairie, a village of about 20,000 residents, has become one of the most robust communities in the state of Wisconsin for attracting businesses and jobs.

A new online service is setting out to use technology to make it easier to find people who have gone missing.

My great-great-grandmother was a great believer in reading tea leaves. Her son-in-law, my great-grandfather, was not.

Company owners interested in learning more about the process and prospects of buying or selling businesses are invited to attend the annual BizTimes M&A Forum, which will take place Friday, May 3, at the Pfister Hotel in downtown Milwaukee from 7:30 to 11:30 a.m.

Zilber Property Group plans to build a 100,000 to 175,000-square-foot speculative industrial building along the west side of Green Bay Road in the LakeView Corporate Park in Pleasant Prairie.

The need for retirement planning doesn't end with the onset of retirement. A new retiree's focus shifts from building wealth to managing and preserving it. One major challenge is to make the investment portfolio supply cash flow for the duration of life – and through different economic and market conditions.

While Mike Bark, a principal at Edge Advisors LLC in West Allis, spends most days in the accounting world where “everything is buttoned up,” but outside of the office he lets loose with what he calls “an aggressive, energetic form of music.”

When Ralph Bruno was reupholstering his mother's couch one day in 1987, he got an idea.

U.S. Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Menomonee Falls) sent a letter to U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, criticizing the decision to close 149 air traffic control towers under the Contract Tower Program – including all eight such towers located in Wisconsin – due to cuts under sequestration.http://mbedit.sx.atl.publicus.com/apps/pbcsedit.dll/red#