Yahara House is a community mental health program focused on building relationships and job opportunities. The clubhouse model reduces hospitalizations and boosts employment in adults with serious mental illnesses, experts and advocates say. 

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The man in charge of overseeing facilities amid the lead crisis at Milwaukee Public Schools is being reprimanded by the state for misrepresenting himself after he didn't renew his architect license.

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“Demographics are a giant problem in this state,” said Mark O'Connell, executive director of the Wisconsin Counties Association. “The last time we had as few births as we have today was in 1943. We are not creating enough young people. We don’t attract them, we don’t grow them, we don’t keep them.”

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Shaundel Washington-Spivey will be the next mayor of La Crosse, becoming the city's first leader who is Black and who is openly gay.

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Tuesday's Wisconsin Supreme Court election was unambiguously a good one for Democrats. The only debate is over how many superlatives to add.

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Exploring the long-lost roots of actress Sheryl Lee Ralph and historian Lonnie Bunch.

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At issue is a six-year-old state law which gives the Legislature's Joint Committee on Finance the final say about whether to approval settlements in civil lawsuits prosecuted by state's attorney general.

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The state superintendent and education officials in northeast Wisconsin are calling on the Legislature’s Republican-controlled budget committee to boost funding to K-12 schools in the next two-year state budget.

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Exploring earth’s grasslands, where the biggest animal numbers are found, and how animal life helps to draw down carbon.

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UW-Madison professor J. Michael Collins explains what impact Social Security changes will have for recipients.

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In March, the Department of Public Instruction announced its first planning grants to four Wisconsin districts to start recovery schools, specifically designed to help students with substance use disorders.

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Paleontologists uncover a whole new species of whale in a parched valley not far from Cairo.

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A water feature could be a pond, stream or even a birdbath, said Chris O’Connor, the regional service manager at Aquatica.

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The heads of the Universities of Wisconsin system and the state Department of Corrections faced critical questions from Republican state lawmakers Tuesday over requests for new state funding.

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State Superintendent Jill Underly was reelected Tuesday, beating educational consultant Brittany Kinser to continue leading Wisconsin's Department of Public Instruction. 

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Dane County Judge Susan Crawford has won a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, preserving liberals’ 4-3 majority after a hard-fought, highly politicized contest that attracted national attention and shattered spending records.

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Wisconsin voters have agreed to add a voter ID requirement to the state constitution.

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Scientists discover the oldest DNA ever found and reveal the genes of long-extinct creatures that once thrived in the Arctic.

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John Koethe reflects on what it’s like to be alive with existential, thoughtful poetry reflecting on his life’s work in philosophy and academics.

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An intimate look at the life and career of Liza Minnelli, and how she built her own legacy in show business.

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