The hospital is planning to stop offering inpatient psychiatric care at Aurora Sheboygan and use the space to create additional inpatient medical surgical bed capacity.

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A Wisconsin man who faked his own death in Green Lake last year has been sentenced to 89 days in jail — the same amount of time he evaded law enforcement.

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“I am not exaggerating this: We are going the way of other sort of oligarchs and tyrannies in the world resembling them,” Moore told WPR’s “Wisconsin Today.” “This is what it looks like.”

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Wisconsin Democratic lawmakers are introducing a bill to reauthorize the state’s land purchase program at $72 million annually over the next six years and create a board to oversee spending on conservation projects.

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Debra Gillispie’s grief journey took her from outrage and a mission to shut down a bar, to driving across the country and back, to 20 years of leading local advocacy and reform efforts, and ultimately, to the prison that’s holding the man who killed her son.

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Two Wisconsin Congressmen are engaged in an ongoing, public feud that has escalated to personal attacks online and an in-person quarrel that was captured on camera.

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The case against Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan will move forward following a federal court ruling. Dugan is accused of helping a man evade ICE by ushering him through a side door of her courtroom.

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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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