There’s an ongoing debate within Wisconsin government over whether workers who receive federal disability payments should also be eligible to get unemployment benefits from the state — and if so, how much.

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This summer, the Natural Resources Foundation of Wisconsin hosted a field trip in southwest Wisconsin to see thousands of bats emerge from their roost to feed at sunset, and return as a massive swarm at dawn.

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In partnership with organizations around the state, the Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra will be hosting concerts, exhibitions and opportunities for Holocaust education, featuring the collection of 70 instruments.

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Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination, leaders at two Universities of Wisconsin centers explain how and why we should prioritize civil conversation when political polarization dominates.

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In 2016, the first ever Cycling Without Age chapter in the U.S. formed in Oshkosh. And now, with more than 100 chapters statewide, Wisconsin has more than any other state.

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The process involves using machines to pump miniscule oxygen bubbles into the water, hopefully slowing algae growth, improving water clarity and decreasing the amount of muck on the lake bottom.

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For seven years, 82-year-old retiree Terry Lauerman has been donating his time to Safe Haven Pet Sanctuary. His specialty? Lying down and taking a snooze with the shelter’s special-needs cats.

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Executive director Trish Kilpin in the DOJ’s Office of School Safety promotes the department’s Speak Up, Speak Out program for reporting threats to school safety.

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Lexi Westley and four other women’s cross country athletes at UW-Madison are coming forward about what they call abusive behavior by their coach Mackenzie Wartenberger.

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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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As a critical mass of invasive carp creeps ever closer to Wisconsin’s waterways, youth on the Wisconsin River are helping monitor their spread.

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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy recently unveiled a package of new initiatives, pilot programs and regulatory changes to the long-haul trucking industry.

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