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Lake Effect's Audrey Nowakowski goes to the projectionist’s booth at Milwaukee's Oriental Theater to find out what it takes to show movies on film.
Here is a guide to help Wisconsinites vote in the Nov. 3 general election.
Here's what to know about what's at stake for the Dairy State during the 2026 midterm election.
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Katherine Kokal/WUWMHow do teachers in Milwaukee recover from 2025 floods that destroyed their classrooms? Inside one class at Riverside High School and how the students and teachers moved on. -
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This WUWM series focuses on the challenges of food accessibility in Milwaukee and examines solutions.
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“Passionate” doesn’t even come close to describing one Milwaukee resident’s commitment to conserving habitat for monarch butterflies. We visit the Monarch Trail to learn about its nearly 20-year evolution. -
President Trump has ramped up an aggressive immigration policy — one that targets people without criminal records, and even people with pending asylum claims or visa applications. In Milwaukee, there may not be a clearer example than Yessenia Ruano. -
Elon Musk will not face charges for promising to give $1 million to voters in a 2025 Wisconsin Supreme Court election because no jury would find that constituted election bribery, a state prosecutor said Tuesday.
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A Milwaukee native and travel influencer dubbed the “Train Travel Queen” journeys around the world via train. How she got her start — and what she’s learned so far. -
10 years after protests following the police killing of Sylville Smith in Sherman Park, Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service examines what's changed in the neighborhood and the city's policing, and how residents remember August 2016. -
Following last year’s passage of Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, a growing number of people are ineligible for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. We explore how that's impacting people in Wisconsin. -
How will the gubernatorial election in Wisconsin between Tom Tiffany and David Crowley impact school funding, voucher program and the legacy of education in Wisconsin politics? -
Last year, I marveled at the simple interior and exterior beauty of the GV60. But I may have been too modest in my praise.
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