Deaths from all-terrain vehicle crashes have increased in recent years, and Wisconsin is on pace to exceed recent totals in 2025.

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The Senate passed the funding cut Thursday morning, and the House of Representatives gave its final approval in a 216-213 vote early Friday, sending it to the president's desk.

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People under the age of 21 will no longer be able to buy hemp-derived THC products in Milwaukee, under an ordinance passed by the city's Common Council on Tuesday.

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The plan no longer calls for allowing duplexes and triplexes in areas zoned for single-family houses.

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Last month, the federal government announced changes to a $42 billion Biden-era broadband expansion program.

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Once, thousands of workers built tractors and trucks on the General Motors site in Janesville. Now, saplings grow among its concrete rubble. In the future, at least part of the site could host a very different user — a data center.

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Jim Conway, a professor of pediatric infectious diseases at the University of Wisconsin Medical School, says health providers in the state are watching the situation closely.

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One mile outside Milwaukee, 25 farmers — most of them Hmong — grow produce at the Mequon Nature Preserve. They're part of a project by a Milwaukee farmer's market, which broke ground at the preserve in 2018, aiming to relieve the pressure of dwindling affordable farmland on the market's vendors.

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Last summer, downtown Milwaukee’s Baird Center hosted the Republican National Convention. This week, the convention center has hosted a very different scene — thousands of fencers competing in over 90 different fencing events.

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Frustrated with dwindling income, Uber and Lyft drivers at Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport went on strike against the two companies last Thursday. Though the strike was dispersed by police, the drivers hope to use the momentum to officially organize.

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Gov. Tony Evers said he will not sign a state budget that doesn't continue direct payments to Wisconsin child care centers.

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Republicans praised the strikes as a necessary step while Democrats criticized President Donald Trump for moving ahead without congressional approval.

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A high-profile medical malpractice trial in Appleton came to a conclusion this week as jurors found health care workers and a hospital not liable in the October 2021 death of 19-year-old Grace Schara.

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After more than 100 years in its south side location, a Milwaukee metal manufacturer might close its doors for good this August.

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Primary care providers face challenges like low profits and a worsening nursing shortage. At Madison-area Group Health Cooperative, those pressures have sparked a unionization campaign by doctors and nurses.

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A Wisconsin man is facing federal charges for running a $16 million investment scheme, according to an affidavit by prosecutors released this week.

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The emails used public information — like permit applications and public meeting records — to tailor demands to the targets.

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Several Planned Parenthood clinics in Wisconsin could close if a provision in the U.S. House of Representatives' budget bill is passed by the Senate.

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The Milwaukee Police Department is considering a trade — 2.5 million mugshots for new facial recognition technology.

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Demonstrators took to the streets in cities and towns across Wisconsin Saturday for a “No Kings” protest designed to rebuke what organizers call a “dictator-like” birthday display from President Donald Trump.

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