The Milwaukee Public Museum’s Streets Alive! returns May 2 for a final run of docents, performances and a last look at the Streets before the move downtown.

Conceptual renderings show a modern nine‑story replacement for Milwaukee's Safety Building, but questions about cost, timing and design remain.

A vehicle struck Jackson’s Soul Food Express near 62nd and Fond du Lac, severing a gas line; fire crews shut the supply and We Energies responded. Injuries are unclear.

An appeals court rejected a Trempealeau County man's constitutional challenge and said Wisconsin's implied‑consent law — and its administrative penalties for refusal — remain in force.

A head-on crash near 13th and Layton left two people injured and a Milwaukee fire engine burned beyond repair, officials say.

More than a year after 5-year-old Finn Katona was killed during a bus transfer, his family is keeping pressure on Hamilton School District and pushing for safer routes and supervision. Local reporting shows policy tweaks, but questions remain.

A $2.6M land sale advances the Rusco Drive residential development, which would add roughly 382 housing units to West Bend’s south side. The sale clears a key hurdle, but approvals and infrastructure work remain.

A new family-run brunch spot opened in Somers Market, mixing classic breakfast plates with global flavors. Early menu highlights include smoked-salmon benedict and shakshuka.

Ho-Chunk Nation proposes a $16M mixed-use building at 3501 S. Howell Ave that pairs roughly 40 apartments with cultural spaces, a library and green systems.

A midday fire at 132 W Market Street forced residents out and sent a man to a burn center; a child was treated and released.

Waukesha-based Badger Distribution paid $16.2M for a 192,000‑sq‑ft former Amazon facility in Sussex and plans to consolidate four locations into the site.

A Brookfield man is charged after prosecutors say a woman was sexually assaulted in a Pfister Hotel bathroom and later confronted at her salon; bond was set at $25,000.

A Madison investor was sentenced to 20 months and fined after prosecutors say he funneled more than $400,000 into U.S. campaigns using a conduit after renouncing his citizenship.