Nearly all artificial Christmas trees in the world today are made in China. And with that comes an up to 30 percent tariff rate on imported Christmas products — including artificial trees. Here's how tariffs are affecting Wisconsin’s real and artificial Christmas trees.

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On “Wisconsin Today,” aviation reporter Howard Hardee spoke about air traffic controller hiring challenges, airline concerns and the extended impact of the federal shutdown on aviation. 

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Labor unions and educators are among those in Wisconsin’s construction industry hailing data center projects as long-term job creators.  

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“Community fridges” have been a hunger-fighting trend around the world, and Wisconsin organizers have followed suit as a means to offer free, fresh produce to anyone in the area in need.

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The Carthage College team is aiming to have its work "mission ready" in nine months.

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Several students from Marquette University High School helped clean gravestones at Milwaukee's oldest cemetery for the school’s literature and social justice class.

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This summer, President Donald Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act into law, ending  various tax credits a decade ahead of schedule. The credits could be used to buy electric vehicles and to install solar panels on homes. 

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The new glass building will host several historic train cars and add more room for the museum to focus on its goal of educating children and the public about railroad history and its place in America.

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A new study found that while half of the state’s school districts tried performance-based pay incentives for teachers, most have since abandoned it.That trend matches what’s happening in schools around the country.

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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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Wisconsin’s commissioner of insurance says the stalemate over Affordable Care Act subsidies at the heart of the government shutdown is already affecting available health insurance options. 

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