A winter adventure with Registered Maine Guide Polly Mahoney and her Yukon huskies; Amy Traverso and food writer David Leite make Portuguese clams and sausage; fat-tire biking.
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Creating a focal point wall; common sprinkler heads; installing a submersible sump pump to solve a flooded basement problem.
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Constructing a safe room in the basement; installing a composite deck; landscape plans are revealed; staying same in a tornado.
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Former Wauwatosa police officer Joseph Mensah, who killed three people in the line of duty before joining the Waukesha County Sheriff's Department, is leaving law enforcement.
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When adjusted for inflation, Wisconsin's per-pupil spending on public school students continues to fall behind the national average, according to U.S. Census data analyzed by the Wisconsin Policy Forum.
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"Chapter a Day" brings you two novels this summer set in the Northwoods. While one explores the place that is the Northwoods, the second explores the people of the area.
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The event has set new attendance records each year since 2022.
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The Senate passed the funding cut Thursday morning, and the House of Representatives gave its final approval in a 216-213 vote early Friday, sending it to the president's desk.
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The campus was home to regional treasures like the Weis Earth Science Museum and the Barlow Planetarium. A Fox alum and librarian says she believes the community is “losing a gem.”
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Officers resolve the mystery of the missing family heirloom and the police close the investigation; Cecil makes a surprising discovery about Danioni.
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States will soon have to pay millions of dollars more for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program under the GOP’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
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“To write about women that are desperate for money is certainly and feel like they’re being pushed out of the place they once were is really interesting.” — Megan Abbott […]
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Recently, Amazon Prime has rekindled interest in "Northern Exposure" by making all six seasons available for streaming.
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Early fundraising numbers in Wisconsin's competitive 3rd Congressional District show Republican U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden and second-time Democratic challenger Rebecca Cooke are virtually tied.
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Pittsburgh writer Damon Young joined us a few years back to talk about his debut memoir, “What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays.” It won the Thurber […]
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A few hundred people gathered at the Wisconsin Capitol on Thursday as part of the latest nationwide protest against President Donald Trump’s administration.
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SC Johnson plans to move jobs from its Chicago office to a facility in Racine County.
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A scathing report describes the problem as "profound failure" and said former City Clerk Maribeth Witzel-Behl showed an "astonishing" lack of urgency in trying to correct or report it.
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Last month, same-sex marriage was both celebrated and condemned on a national scale. Pastors from Madison and Manitowoc County shared their personal stories and reaction to recent news.
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In the latest chapter of layoffs in the video game industry, about 20 of Middleton’s Raven Software staff are among the hundreds of people laid off by Microsoft this month. Tens of thousands of workers in the video game industry have been laid off since 2023.
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