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Mount Pleasant is getting back financial incentives that were originally set to go to Microsoft for its massive data center campus in the village.

Two stoneware vessels on display at the Milwaukee Art Museum will be returned to the trust of the artist’s living descendants.

Data centers may provide a major economic development opportunity for local communities in Wisconsin, but concerns around water and energy use and potential costs to residents have made them increasingly controversial.

Sometimes voters who are dissatisfied with their choices write in candidates.

Country singer Lauren Alaina talks about her new album, “Stages,” motherhood and the longtime family ties that have made northern Wisconsin feel like home.

Wisconsin Rapids Alder Michael Timm will have to campaign to keep his job after residents forced a recall election over an email he sent a local business.

A fir tree from Wisconsin will be towering in the center of the White House Blue Room this holiday season.

Residents in Antigo are fighting to keep their local pool open after school district leaders said they didn’t have the funds for it.

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is one step closer to securing a conservation easement on almost 1,800 acres in Langlade County that would benefit timber production and the Ice Age National Scenic Trail.

This summer, Wisconsin opened its first certified forest bathing trail in Vilas County.

A new exhibition in the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art uses generative artificial intelligence to allow viewers to manipulate digital artwork.

This year’s event takes place Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 26-27, at nearly 200 locations around the city.

Whooping cranes --- creeping back from the brink of extinction through intensive conservation efforts --- only produce one to two eggs per year.

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Francesca Hong, the progressive state legislator who narrowly lost the Democratic primary for governor, is hitting the road over the next month to rally her supporters around other Democratic candidates this November.

Across Wisconsin and the country, body-camera use is near-universal among large law enforcement agencies.

A notice on the front of the buildings says it was "illegally occupied and unfit for human habitation."

Underly called on the state Legislature to change the way Wisconsin schools are funded and called on Wisconsinites to choose leaders who will “protect public education and invest in the next generation.”

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources can now pursue special bag and size limits to aid struggling walleye populations.

After initially peaking around May, the tick population sees a second peak in October.

Thousands of Milwaukee Public School students headed to American Family Field on Wednesday to celebrate a $46 million program targeted at helping kids succeed after high school graduation.

Wisconsin municipalities use the bond market to borrow money for capital improvements.

The Munich Chamber Orchestra explores the connection between Beethoven's symphonies and the works of his Italian contemporaries.

A brand new group reported spending $13 million against Wisconsin Democrats in its first campaign finance report.

The plan still needs a vote from the village board, but it’s part of a larger effort by the company to increase manufacturing capacity in Mount Pleasant.

After the expiration of the decades-old Knowles-Nelson Stewardship Program earlier this year, land trusts around the state are adapting to the funding challenges coming from the loss of a major source of state support.

A plan to build homes and multifamily units on the site of a closed college campus in Waukesha is moving forward.

Policy changes by the Trump administration are weakening an already struggling workforce that helps care for Wisconsin’s older adults and disabled population.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is leading a probe into a fire that occurred at a drilling site for Enbridge’s reroute of its Line 5 oil and gas pipeline in northern Wisconsin.

From a cellphone or computer, farmer Michael Dolan can draw an invisible boundary line around his 75 collar-wearing cows at Seven Seeds Farm.

This September, five hundred people bought tickets and turned up at a family farm in southern Wisconsin, so they could watch hay being baled.

Beginning in December, new federal restrictions will make many hemp products illegal.

Giese Elementary School in Racine opened in 1965, but was torn down in 2022.

An Ozaukee County judge has dismissed a lawsuit challenging local development incentives supporting a $15 billion data center campus under construction in Port Washington.

Wisconsin wildlife regulators say they’ve received more than 1,600 reports of dead deer in southeastern Wisconsin that are tied to the state’s largest outbreak of Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease.

After a proposed federal farm bill moved out of committee last week, some farm workers are worried about the trickle-down effect of cuts to SNAP passed under the Republicans' One Big Beautiful Bill Act of 2025.

Central Wisconsin author and longtime Wausau educator Julianna Burmesch explores childhood trauma, resilience and healing in her memoir, “Life with Less of Me.”

Milwaukee's Oriental Theatre opened nearly 100 years ago.

Education majors at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater are using an AI-powered student avatar to get experience teaching math problems.

The Superior Rivers Watershed Association recruits citizen scientists to help biologists identify macroinvertebrates in the tributaries to the lake.

Under the settlement, Credit Acceptance Corporation, or CAC, will provide $694 million in cash and debt relief to consumers connected to their car loans.

Edgerton, a Wisconsin community of just over 6,000 people, has become a sensation in Japan for its ties to a famous pet raccoon.

Baldwin said in the letter that employees at the Tomah VA contacted her office to report "severe lapses in patient care" as a result of "poor management and inadequate staffing".

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The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has its highest enrollment in 17 years, with first year student enrollment up nearly 1 percent and transfer enrollment up 4.5 percent.

Citing fraud investigations and findings from the federal government, without mentioning President Donald Trump by name, U.S.

At this time of year, millions of monarch butterflies are beginning their 3,000 mile migration to Mexico.

Proposed transmission line developments through southwestern Wisconsin have made for unlikely political bedfellows this election season.

One thing author Jesse Brookstein stresses in his new book is that a lot of cultures brought their sausages to Wisconsin.