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Elections committee members weigh in on Trump calls to end mail-in voting

22 August 2025 at 20:54

President Trump has called for an end to mail-in voting โ€” a practice established in Wisconsin in the 1860s. Two members of the stateโ€™s Committee on Campaigns and Elections weigh in.

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Search underway for people missing from riverside homeless encampment since flood

22 August 2025 at 20:34

Homeless outreach workers in Milwaukee County are still looking to connect with a few people they believe may have been displaced due to the flooding from the storm.

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Wisconsin youth sue state to strike down laws they say worsen climate crisis, violate rights

22 August 2025 at 18:44

A group of 15 young people in Wisconsin is challenging state laws that they say worsen the climate crisis and violate their constitutional rights following a landmark climate ruling in Montana.

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Whey was once considered waste. Today, it is fueling the dairy industry.

22 August 2025 at 18:34

A New York Times journalist traveled to Wisconsin to investigate how the health industryโ€™s demand for whey products is changing the dairy business. A Wisconsin master cheesemaker said it is the way of the future.

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Wisconsin victim service providers hopeful AG lawsuit protects federal funding

By: Lorin Cox
22 August 2025 at 13:31

The threatened funding helps Wisconsin organizations pay for advocacy and therapy costs for victims of sexual assault and child abuse, among other crimes.

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GOP lawmakers pump brakes on Evers administrationโ€™s rules overhaul

21 August 2025 at 23:23

Republican leaders in the Wisconsin Legislature are punching back after Democratic Gov. Tony Evers told state agencies to publish rules on topics like water quality, licensing and wolf management without waiting for GOP-led committees to sign off. They're doing so by telling the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau it can't publish rules until committees have weighed in.

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FEMA surveys Wisconsin flood damage as state inches toward disaster declaration

21 August 2025 at 23:00

Teams with the Federal Emergency Management Agency have arrived in Southeast Wisconsin to verify storm damage after a historic rainfall led to widespread flooding across the area.ย 

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Lawmakers debate โ€˜no tax on tipsโ€™ proposal, after nixing it from Eversโ€™ budget

21 August 2025 at 22:33

Wisconsin state lawmakers are debating a proposal to eliminate taxes on income earned through tips, a policy Gov. Tony Evers proposed in his state budget earlier this year that Republicans nixed.

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Eastern Wisconsin city approves development agreement for $8B data center campus

21 August 2025 at 22:03

The Port Washington City Council on Tuesday unanimously approved a development agreement with a company that plans to spend more than $8 billion to build a data center campus.

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Wausau Fire Department official accused of stealing painkillers

21 August 2025 at 21:21

The Wausau Fire Department's division chief of emergency medicine services was arrested and charged with misconduct in public office for allegedly stealing fentanyl and another painkiller.

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Remembering Jim Lovell: Milwaukeeโ€™s โ€˜imperturbable, unflappableโ€™ astronaut

21 August 2025 at 19:53

Jim Lovell was the first astronaut to travel to space four times and the leader of the harrowing Apollo 13 mission. He died earlier this month at the age of 97. The coauthor of the Apollo 13 recounting, โ€œLost Moonโ€ explored Lovellโ€™s legacy.

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UW-Stout professor to teach family therapy courses in Turkey as Fulbright scholar

21 August 2025 at 19:03

Thanks to her new Fulbright scholarship, UW-Stout associate professor Candice Maier will teach her feminism-informed approach to family therapy at an Istanbul university next Spring.

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Under the bridge: A skatepark grows in Milwaukee

21 August 2025 at 19:00

The National DIY Skatepark in Milwaukee's Walker's Point neighborhood started out as an illegal project in the midst of COVID-19. Now, it's a nonprofit with city backing.

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Bayfield County man gets jail time, probation after keeping horses in โ€˜atrociousโ€™ conditions

21 August 2025 at 18:27

A Bayfield County man who faced almost 60 charges for keeping horses in โ€œatrociousโ€ conditions will spend 30 days in jail and receive one year of probation.

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Wisconsin scientists are leaders in testing psilocybin treatments for mental health

21 August 2025 at 10:03

Psychedelic drugs that have historically been used recreationally โ€” and illegally โ€” could soon find their place in clinics.

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