Wisconsin pediatricians are celebrating two decades of a cancer-preventing vaccine. But state data shows nearly half of the state's teenagers aren't getting the shots.

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During the most recent legislative session, Senate and Assembly child marriage bills sat in committees led by state Sen. Chris Kapenga and state Rep. Patrick Snyder. The bills died without a committee hearing, just like in past sessions.

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Gov. Tony Evers announced the state’s first settlement with a Marinette manufacturer of firefighting foam over alleged violations of the state’s spills law for failing to report PFAS contamination.

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The Cenovus oil refinery in Superior has shut down a unit that treats and removes hydrogen sulfide gas due to a small leak, according to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.

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A new grant will help the Portage Community School District create an in-house clinic offering mental health support to students at school.

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The report, which is conducted by the Wisconsin Department of Health Services every five years, looks at how factors like income, housing and the environment affect health outcomes in the state.

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The public radio show “Reveal” explained in a recent episode that nearly one in five 911 dispatch centers in America’s 100 biggest cities fail to answer 911 calls within 15 seconds. But Dane County’s center has beaten those standards for years. A reporter explains his findings and a Waukesha County official details how her county turned its dispatch around.

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More than 60 advocacy organizations and businesses in Wisconsin are calling on the state's top children's hospitals to resume providing gender-affirming care for transgender youth.

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Over the last two years, people have mailed in nearly 12,500 ticks from Wisconsin and the surrounding region to Marshfield Clinic Research Institute's Tick Inventory via Citizen Science project.

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New data from Milwaukee County highlights how rates of suicide have changed since the COVID-19 pandemic.

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After more than a year of political twists and turns, DeForest's board of trustees voted 4-2 to bring fluoridate back to the village's water.

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Director of the Midwest Center of Excellence for Vector-Borne Disease says the more dangerous deer tick nymphs will be emerging in Wisconsin in the next couple of weeks.

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Just weeks after changes to federal student loan policy officially reclassified nursing and other programs as no longer “professional” degrees, Wisconsin has joined two dozen other states in suing the Trump administration over the policy.

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A new report looks at the tax revenue impacts of changing consumer behaviors around smoking and use of alternative nicotine products.

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“Remember when you were a kid and you first rode on a bicycle, it felt like you could fly?vWhen people are sitting on these comfortable couches in the front of the machine, they can get that feeling back.”

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Hundreds of nurses at SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital in Madison are working to unionize.

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A conservative law firm is suing state officials in federal court challenging Wisconsin’s ban on conversion therapy, arguing it amounts to unconstitutional “viewpoint discrimination.”

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In 2021, lawmakers in Maine passed a suite of legislation aimed at fixing the state’s PFAS crisis, investing more than $200 million in the effort. A new book chronicles Maine's PFAS story and where things stand now, five years later.

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For women in prison, Mother's Day can be especially difficult. A group of Wisconsin activists wants to let incarcerated moms know they're not alone. To do that, they got in their cars.

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As of May 1, some smaller Ascension Wisconsin ICUs in Mequon, Brookfield and Franklin are staffing critical care specialists by video call only — raising concerns from staff about patient outcomes.

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