Sanders thanked his audience for an "unbelievable turnout" and encouraged Republican Rep. Bryan Steil, who represents Wisconsin's 1st Congressional District, to hold a town hall meeting in the same arena at a later date.

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The hearing focused on two Republican-backed bills. Both bills propose statewide guidelines for local school policies on transgender students.

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The development in Wauwatosa is in response to high demand for housing, but the issue also has locals divided on how best to meet it.

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Alonzo Robinson's Central City Plaza — a former Black-owned, Black-developed shopping center — got one step closer to historic status after a vote by Milwaukee's Historic Preservation Commission.

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MPS had done remediation work — but then the Health Department found two irregularities.

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This week's numbers are almost enough to bring the school back to pre-pandemic levels.

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Eighty-two percent of Wisconsin's 2-year-olds had a measles shot in 2023, per state health data, down from 88 percent in 2013.

Some Wisconsin counties saw much bigger drops.

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People booed and jeered at U.S. Rep. Glenn Grothman as he walked into the Algoma Town Hall just outside Oshkosh Friday morning.

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Darla LeClair spent years trying to end Two Rivers' ban on front yard vegetable gardens.

"Come on, why are you so prejudiced against peas, you know?" she said.

Two new bills would limit similar restrictions on vegetable gardens and backyard chicken flocks statewide.

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Milwaukee Public Schools and the city of Milwaukee will split the costs of putting police officers in schools, ending the ongoing fight over moving the issue forward, a judge ruled […]

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WPR interviewed each of the candidates. The top two will advance to a general election on April 1.

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Thanks to Milwaukee's unusual twist on the common tax incremental district subsidy, 74 affordable homes are going up on vacant lots.

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