President Donald Trump’s tariffs are making it harder for Wisconsin businesses to predict the price of raw materials and are straining decades-long relationships with trade partners — and more tariffs are expected to take effect next month.

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Data centers are expanding across the central U.S. to meet growing demand for artificial intelligence. That's raising concerns about growing energy demand and freshwater usage.

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The event has set new attendance records each year since 2022.

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The 2025 NFL draft in Green Bay had a statewide economic impact of more than $104 million, beating pre-draft projections, according to new data from the local visitors bureau.

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Special Olympics Wisconsin has joined an international effort aimed at improving health care quality and access for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

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President Donald Trump's massive tax and spending law indefinitely extends the 2017 tax cuts on people. It also includes targeted tax breaks that will largely expire by the end of his second term in office.

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QTS Data Centers began to consider developing in Wisconsin after working with Alliant Energy on a separate project in Iowa.

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Seven people were rescued after being pulled into a dam on the Upper Mississippi River when their boat became disabled.

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Communities across Wisconsin have taken steps to become more sustainable over the last decade and a half, but a lack of standardized reporting makes it difficult to measure cost savings from those efforts.

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Local leaders reached a tentative deal to move Green Bay’s century-old riverfront coal piles last month. Local leaders reached a tentative deal to move Green Bay’s century-old riverfront coal piles last month. But the downtown home of the mounds of coal likely won’t be development-ready for several years. 

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“Our members do virtually everything from providing multiple levels of care to facility maintenance,” the union stated. “Non-profit healthcare workers should be able to afford their own healthcare.”

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An eleventh hour amendment made in the Senate will allow renewable energy projects that begin construction by 2026 or come online by 2027 to receive tax credits, which is slightly less restrictive than a previous version of the bill.

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The developer behind the largest solar project ever approved in Wisconsin has agreed to a settlement with a state conservation group aimed at protecting the Greater Prairie Chicken.

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President Donald Trump’s signature legislation, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, could cause tens of thousands of Wisconsinites to lose Medicaid coverage and force some rural hospitals either to close or reduce services.

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We Energies says the decision comes in response to tightened energy supply requirements and in an effort to boost reliability.

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Wisconsin home sales were down for their third straight month in May, while the median home price continued to climb, according to a new report.

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Wisconsin’s labor shortage is a major barrier to growing the state’s economy, and worker productivity also lags behind neighboring states, a new report finds.

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A former Hormel Foods employee allegedly attempted to share trade secrets with Wisconsin-based competitor Johnsonville, according to a new lawsuit.

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A northeast Wisconsin congressman has introduced legislation that would strip federal funding from state and local governments that are deemed to be “anarchist jurisdictions.” Critics see it as a way to punish free speech.

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As part of the expansion, Yaskawa America Inc. will begin manufacturing robots in Franklin.

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