Bioacoustics enable researchers to get a fuller picture of the forest, the species that inhabit it and how they change over time.

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Demand for beef hasn't budged, but the nation's cattle herd is smaller than it has been for decades.

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School supply giveaways and free haircuts provided by community organizations like Safe & Sound in Milwaukee are helping parents ease the rising costs of back-to-school shopping.

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More than a century ago, a cargo ship ran into a rocky outcrop while fog engulfed Lake Michigan. Its wreckage remained lost, until a Door County tour guide spotted something unusual.

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Boxer Cassius Clay rises from the amateur ranks to win gold at the 1960 Olympics and become a contender for the heavyweight championship title.

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Wicky arrives at a stately home to clean up a burglary gone wrong.

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Fourteen people in northeast Wisconsin have been infected with measles, state health officials said Friday. 

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President Trump has called for an end to mail-in voting — a practice established in Wisconsin in the 1860s. Two members of the state’s Committee on Campaigns and Elections weigh in.

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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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Black chokeberry shrubs, Heleniums and moonflowers a few of the many plants that can add variety to the autumnal garden.

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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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A New York Times journalist traveled to Wisconsin to investigate how the health industry’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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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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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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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. 

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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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A former manager within Madison's Department of Civil Rights violated multiple city policies, Madison's Human Resources department concluded.

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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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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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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, “Lost Moon” explored Lovell’s legacy.

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