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Taiwan owner takes $2.77B tax break reduction from 2017 for flexibility to build other electronics products in state.

State appellate court says home-rule municipalities don't have to abide by 2016 constitutional measure that required transportation funds to be spent only on designated projects and infrastructure.

ArcelorMittal, the world’s largest steelmaker, recently introduced a program to offer certificates to customers that certify they have reduced their carbon footprint through the steelmaker’s own greenhouse-gas emission reductions.

A former flood control dam is retrofitted into Iowa's second hydroelectric dam.

Top Starts Drop by two-thirds from 2019 levels as pandemic pauses projects.

Specialty trade contractors saw the greatest job losses while the industry jobless rate worsened on monthly, year-over-year measures.

A requirement passed last fall for new construction and expansions in Madison, Wis., to include bird-safe designs and materials has been formally challenged by an advocacy group representing several Wisconsin construction and real estate industry associations. 

Proposed budget calls for funding of 28 projects within the University of Wisconsin system.

Leaders of Generation Now, a PAC created to funnel money to politicians that supported an energy-reform bill that saved FirstEnergy's plants, has pleaded guilty to one count of racketeering conspiracy.

After being delayed last year due to falling sales tax receipts, the 112,0000-sq-ft expansion of the Wisconsin Center in Milwaukee, the state's largest convention center, is back on.