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Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers has extended his Safer at Home order to May 26, while easing a few restrictions on some businesses. 

As the coronavirus, and the economic fallout created by the response to the virus, have hit the United States, many have sought comparisons to prior downturns.

Coronavirus-related cancellations of events booked by VISIT Milwaukee have resulted in an estimated $47 million in lost economic impact for the region, president and chief executive officer Peggy Williams-Smith said Wednesday. 

Smithfield Foods Inc. announced today that it will close its Patrick Cudahy dry sausage and bacon plant in Cudahy for two weeks, beginning later this week. Some employees at the plant have tested positive for the COVID-19 coronavirus, the company said.

German industrial automation implementation firm Beckhoff Automation LLC plans to open an office this summer at the Global Water Center in Milwaukee's Walker's Point neighborhood.

Wisconsin Small Business Administration lenders have approved more than $7 billion in loans through the federal Paycheck Protection Program.

Twin Disc’s products generally allow it to continue operating, but Batten said it is challenging to be productive with uncertainty from a number of sources.

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.

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.