Williamsburg Heights

Milwaukee Arts Board announces 2025 Artists of the Year, Friends of the Arts Award honorees

Alderwoman Coggs announces 6th District Landscape Award winners

Renovated Green Bay Playfield Opens

MPS-owned park located near Interstate 43 and Capitol Drive

Supervisor Johnson Recognized with Distinguished Worldwide Humanitarian Award

Census Data Shows Changing Milwaukee Demographics

Fewer white residents citywide, but shrinking population totals in many majority-Black neighborhoods.

Green Bay Playfield Being Renovated

Part of MPS effort to update 52 playfields.

New Bar to Replace Roth’s Inn

Yacks on Richards planned for location at 3805 N. Richards St.

City of Milwaukee Arts Board announces 2020 Mildred L. Harpole Artists of the Year and Friends of the Arts Awards

Atkinson Name Was Twice Opposed

Avenue named after first State Veterinarian, but many wanted changed to Malcolm X.

The Enduring Impact of Redlining

Polices begun in 1930s can still be seen in metro-Milwaukee segregation.

13 Places on MLK Dr. Featured by Doors Open

Two century-old churches, art galleries, sausage factory and much more.

City Creates Vel Phillips Ave., Plans Statue

N. 4th St. to become Vel R. Phillips Ave.; where will statue go?

4th St. Will Become Vel. R. Phillips Ave.

Major downtown street to be renamed for Milwaukee leader and civil rights pioneer.

Gathering Place Brewing Opening August 19th

Gathering Place will serve four beers at the grand opening.

GMC receives Harvesting Leading Practices grant from Kresge Foundation

Grant supports work in creative placemaking for the artery and Harambee/Riverwest neighborhoods

GMC Wins $725,000 Grant to Help City

Kresge Foundation grant would help build city's Artery trail and revive depressed Harambee neighborhood.

Cold Weather Increases Need for Energy Assistance

How and where to apply for state program providing assistance.

$350,000 Grant Funds Art Corridors

GMC lands grant from ArtPlace America to create artistic corridors in Riverwest and Harambee and on West Wisconsin Ave.

6th Annual Fair Trade Crawl

Shop at 24 local businesses throughout Milwaukee, the only major U.S. city that’s a “Fair Trade Town.”

Healing an Urban Scar

A proposed trail called an "Artery" could renew an abandoned, 2.4 mile strip of land along a former railroad track.

Milwaukee Recreation Keeps it Cool

On weekdays when the temperature is predicted to be above 85 degrees (or when the city issues a heat advisory), the Milwaukee Department of Public Works attaches industrial-strength sprinklers to the fire hydrants at seven Milwaukee Recreation playgrounds.

N. Port Washington Ave./Rd. Reconstruction Underway

Work is underway on the reconstruction of N. Port Washington Ave./Rd. from N. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. to W. Olive St., according to Alderwoman Milele A. Coggs.