A New York Times journalist traveled to Wisconsin to investigate how the health industry’s demand for whey products is changing the dairy business. A Wisconsin master cheesemaker said it is the way of the future.

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Last week, 22 cars of a Canadian Pacific train came off the tracks near Reeseville in Dodge County.

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Innovations like this are why Freedman wants to create one of the country’s most advanced 3D printing labs at UW-Stout.

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As flash floods hit southeastern Wisconsin the Door County peninsula also got hammered with a summer storm. The main roads were impassable due to debris and people were stranded for hours in remote locations.

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Ann Marsh has been studying insects for more than two decades. Her research specimens include bugs that dehair rodents to feed to their young and a fly that uses its harpoon-like abdomen to insert eggs into prey.

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Last month, same-sex marriage was both celebrated and condemned on a national scale. Pastors from Madison and Manitowoc County shared their personal stories and reaction to recent news.

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UW-Madison’s Keith Bechtol has played a hand in building the Vera Rubin Observatory in Chile. A camera with 3.2 billion pixels will collect the data equivalent of all written language over all of human history.

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