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This Wisconsin summer camp reunites foster kids with their biological siblings

For one week at Belong Wisconsin’s summer camp, foster children experience what it is like to be close to their biological sibling. And as funding becomes uncertain, all involved with the camp are determined to keep it going.

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β€˜These rate hikes unfairly burden families’: Wisconsin energy customers testify to Public Service Commission

Customers from some of Wisconsin's largest electric utilities this week asked state regulators to block the utilities from increasing electric rates in each of the next two years.

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FEMA flood relief funds available to residents in Milwaukee, Washington and Waukesha counties

The assistance could include grants for temporary housing and home repairs, low-cost loans to cover uninsured property losses and other programs to help individuals and families recover from the effects of the storms that occurred Aug. 9-12.Β 

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Assembly passes bills to restrict Pride flags, Medicaid access for undocumented people

In their first floor session since passing a state budget, GOP lawmakers in the state Assembly approved bills Thursday that would bar state buildings from waving LGBTQ+ Pride flags, further restrict healthcare access for undocumented people and require state employees to work in-person.

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Some Wisconsin adoptees can’t legally access their original birth certificate. A new bill would change that

Advocate and adoptee Diana Higgenbottom Anagnostopoulos shared the emotional and legal obstacles that some adoptees face without access to their original birth certificate.

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Wisconsin communities hoping to breathe new life into old industrial sites with redevelopment projects

By: Lorin Cox

The Great Recession and other declines in manufacturing led to factory closures, and in the years since, local leaders have been working through what to do with the vacant properties.

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