The stock market was flat today as investors weighed conflicting data about the state of the U.S. economy.

Pent-up demand because of aging automobiles has been helping to drive auto sales for months.

Stillwaters Cancer Support Services and Cancer Support Community Greater Milwaukee, the area’s two leading providers of support services for people living with cancer, announced today that they plan to merge their efforts.

U.S. HealthWorks, one of the largest operators of occupational health care centers in the United States, today announced it has acquired four health care centers and two worksites from Sensia Healthcare in Wisconsin.

Waukesha-based MetalTek International has acquired Lakeland, Fla.-based industrial metal fabrication and machining company Specialty Maintenance and Construction Inc.

WISN 12 raised more than $187,000 to benefit Hurricane Sandy relief efforts and the Hunger Task Force’s Food for Families holiday campaign thanks to contributions from viewers in southeastern Wisconsin.

The public is invited to help BizTimes Media salute the first responders to the mass shootings in Oak Creek and Brookfield by attending the 2012 Health Care Heroes Awards Breakfast.

The Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee are hosting an online toy drive through Dec. 31 to benefit thousands of kids and teenagers in southeastern Wisconsin.

The Milwaukee Repertory Theater has been selected as one of 832 nonprofit organizations nationwide to receive funding from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) as part of its Art Works grant, according to an announcement made by NEA Chairman Rocco Landesman Wednesday.

Green Bay Packers lineman Josh Sitton will sign photographs at AT&T’s Glendale location on Tuesday, Dec. 4, during a food collection hosted by the store in support of Hunger Task Force.

If you mention “toll roads” to the typical Wisconsin motorist, chances are good the reply will include an unflattering reference to Illinois and its 286 miles of pay-as-you-go interstate highways.

Marquette University president Scott Pilarz, S.J., has an update on the progress the school is making in creating a vision for its future.