Beginning in November, SNAP retailers across the U.S. will be required to stock more healthy foods. But experts say the change will ultimately leave federal food aid users with fewer options — especially in rural areas.

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Wisconsin pediatricians are celebrating two decades of a cancer-preventing vaccine. But state data shows nearly half of the state's teenagers aren't getting the shots.

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The bronze sculpture of Betsy Thunder was installed in May as part of a new section of the Riverside International Friendship Gardens in La Crosse's Riverside Park.

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The report, which is conducted by the Wisconsin Department of Health Services every five years, looks at how factors like income, housing and the environment affect health outcomes in the state.

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Wisconsin food banks are expected to see increased need this summer when refugees and other immigrants with humanitarian statuses will lose food assistance under a federal change.

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Wisconsin-based Organic Valley and other major organic brands are challenging the federal system regulating the sale of milk, which they claim favors conventional producers.

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More than 60 advocacy organizations and businesses in Wisconsin are calling on the state's top children's hospitals to resume providing gender-affirming care for transgender youth.

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Over the last two years, people have mailed in nearly 12,500 ticks from Wisconsin and the surrounding region to Marshfield Clinic Research Institute's Tick Inventory via Citizen Science project.

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New data from Milwaukee County highlights how rates of suicide have changed since the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Community-supported agriculture has been a popular way for people to buy produce from local farms for decades. There's new pressure on farmers to offer more customization and convenience — but some CSA supporters worry that may dilute the original purpose.

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A new report looks at the tax revenue impacts of changing consumer behaviors around smoking and use of alternative nicotine products.

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Students at Wisconsin's K-12 schools and universities lost access to course work Thursday after a cyberattack took the popular education app Canvas offline nationwide.

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VA Secretary Doug Collins held a roundtable with Wisconsin veterans Thursday at the American Legion in Sparta before a planned visit the Tomah VA Medical Center.

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Testing for avian flu among Wisconsin dairy cows is being reduced, thanks to recent changes at both state and federal levels.

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The Governor's Interagency Council on Mental Health released a new statewide action plan Tuesday, identifying both current efforts to improve state programs as well as future goals around increasing access to support.

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Thirty-four cases of salmonella across 13 states have been linked to the outbreak, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said a new farm bill will help Wisconsin farmers.

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Several rounds of severe storms last week caused flooding in communities from Janesville to the Milwaukee area, as well as in northeastern and central parts of the state. 

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The Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation, Wisconsin Corn Growers Association and three other state organizations signed on to a letter urging congressional leaders to pass what policy makers are calling the "Farm Bill 2.0."

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Ananth Seshadri, director and co-author of a report on health care costs, said increasing costs hurts Wisconsin's economic competitiveness because insurance is often tied to employment.

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