The Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation has issued suggested best practices for businesses when they reopen amid the COVID-19 pandemic. WEDC Secretary-designee and CEO Missy Hughes discusses the purpose and scope of these guidelines.
While Memorial Day weekend is the unofficial start of summer and one of the busiest tourist weekends in Wisconsin, 10 counties and seven of the state's 11 tribal communities have COVID-19 restrictions in place based on the state's overturned "Safer-at-Home" order.
After counties implemented local COVID-19 regulations and advisories when the Wisconsin Supreme Court struck down the statewide stay-at-home order, Dane County announced it will loosen its restrictions after Memorial Day.
After moving its spring hearings entirely online because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Wisconsin Conservation Congress reported a record-setting 64,943 responses — double the previous record — on a variety of conservation issues.
Short of a cure or effective treatment for COVID-19, something that could take years to develop, state and local health officials in Wisconsin are planning for a future where contact tracing plays a central role in combating the disease.
Wisconsin state parks will resume normal hours for Memorial Day weekend but visitors won't have access to bathrooms until June, the state Department of Natural Resources has announced.
Opponents of Wisconsin's overturned "Safer at Home" order have turned their attention to the local health orders that sprung up to replace it, filing a federal lawsuit that seeks to strike the local restrictions down.
Kenosha County health officials say they're not receiving cooperation from Amazon after employees at the warehouse along I-94 have contracted COVID-19.
Wisconsin unemployment numbers reached 14.1% during the month of April, the highest since the Great Depression, as all 72 Wisconsin counties recorded at least one positive case of COVID-19.
The U.S. Senate is mulling another coronavirus aid package after House Democrats passed a $3 trillion dollar relief bill, but Wisconsin's senators are split in their support.
