Wisconsin TV news manager Julie Moravchik McAllister has been covering and assigning stories about Breast Cancer Awareness Month for years. Now, she has found herself among those diagnosed with the disease.

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As the weather grows colder, Wisconsin health officials are urging residents to get vaccinated for several respiratory illnesses, including COVID-19. The plea comes as people are facing more confusion and hurdles over getting a COVID shot.

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“When I look into a baby's eyes and ‘goo go ga ga,’ and the baby makes those sounds back, that child is learning how to make that hard G sound with me,” Sauk Prairie School District Superintendent Jeff Wright said. “But you can't learn that through a screen. And you also can't learn that if you see the foreheads of adults more than you see their full faces.”

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Construction is set to begin soon for a project in Milwaukee aimed at getting homeless veterans off the street and into housing. 

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Republican authors of a bill directing schools to create a process telling parents how to opt their kids out of vaccine requirements said at a public hearing Wednesday the measure isn't "anti-vax." But Democratic lawmakers alleged it was aimed at shaking the public's confidence in vaccines.

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The U.S. Department of Energy is reportedly considering terminating more than 600 Biden-era funding awards across the country that total almost $24 billion.

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The University of Wisconsin-Madison saw a sharp drop in the number of new students attending from overseas this fall, the decline coming after college officials voiced concerns about the impact of Trump administration policies on international enrollment.

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Special education advocates in Wisconsin are concerned about the potential impact of layoffs in the U.S. Department of Education offices that oversee special education programs.

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Twenty years later, “Voodoo” stands as an epoch in music and pop history. Filmmaker and writer Faith A. Pennick has penned the 33 1/3 series book on D’Angelo’s masterpiece called, “D’Angelo’s Voodoo.”

She writes that “Voodoo” was “a gumbo of rock, soul, gospel, hip-hop, jazz, and indigenous African and Caribbean music, exploring the pitfalls of fame, love found and lost, carnal desires, and the blessing of a child.”

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For the first time in its history, the St. Croix Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin released lake sturgeon into Clam Lake as part of efforts to restore the ancient fish.

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The Madison Methodical Meanderers has a goal. The members, led by Melinda Morang, want to walk every street in Madison.

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“I basically went ahead when I probably should have turned back,” climate reporter Alec Luhn recently said on WPR’s “Wisconsin Today.” Luhn went missing for six days this summer.

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Leaves are changing color across Wisconsin, but in most of the state, the trees have yet to reach their height of vibrancy.

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Republican Party of Milwaukee County 1st Vice Chair Brett Galaszewski said the party was too distraught to hold an event until now.

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The measure was among a long list of bills that were aimed at allowing candidates to remove their names from general election ballots after they've dropped out of a race, expanding health insurance coverage of enhanced breast cancer screenings and honoring conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

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Assembly lawmakers approved a range of bills related to crime, policing and trafficking Tuesday. And Democrats used the debate to shift focus to the Epstein files.

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Milwaukee's fire chief is sounding the alarm about the need to replace outdated fire trucks and engines in the city.

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A Wisconsin immigration attorney Grant Sovern says the Trump administration's fee for H-1B visas lacks clarity on how to pay and raises legal questions.

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A recent report from FICO finds that Americans’ average credit score is on the decline, with Gen Z borrowers being most affected. An economics professor says the dropping score isn’t the most alarming findings in this analysis.

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Worried about private equity ownership, residents explore purchasing parks and running them as cooperatives. Wisconsin doesn’t make it easy.

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