A week before students return to campus, a UW-Milwaukee neuroscientist said she has to call the students back “and tell them, ‘Oh, sorry, this is actually now not happening.'”

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The school district has long struggled with the same issues plaguing urban school districts across the nation, including declining enrollment, rising absenteeism and funding deficits. Recently, MPS was beset by a financial scandal followed by a lead crisis.

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For Koele, the work is not only about science and safety but also about community.

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Recent disasters in Milwaukee have highlighted the need for more emergency shelters in the city. 

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ConnectSuperior began making high-speed broadband service available to residents earlier this month with the completion of its fiber optic infrastructure, though the city itself isn’t the internet provider.

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Author Charlie Donlea’s newest book, “Guess Again,” hit the shelves earlier this summer. The author is based in Chicago, but the book takes place all over Wisconsin, whose small lake communities Donlea grew up visiting.

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The fall semester for the Universities of Wisconsin campuses starts next week. But at least 50 students at UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee still don’t know if they’ll be able to attend class. 

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A judge in Oneida County has dismissed rare criminal defamation charges against Northwoods brewery owner Kirk Bangstad.

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Leaders of a statewide school board advocacy group said that school districts around the state will face another financially challenging school year and predicted that many districts will ask voters for more money in referendums. 

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Some federal offices in Wisconsin remain open after the Department of Government Efficiency targeted them for termination earlier this year.

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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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