World trade officials are in Milwaukee this week to talk about global trade policy, while local labor advocates want the U.S. to change course.

Access to affordable food is a growing challenge that doesn’t spare older adults. We examine a Milwaukee County program addressing that problem, one senior diner at a time.

A Milwaukee filmmaker asks what the American dream looks like for workers today and what happened to the jobs that once helped build it.

The High Road Strategy Center's annual "State of Working Wisconsin" report provides an economic outlook for working people in Wisconsin.

Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley and Congressman Tom Tiffany are each touting affordability plans on their quests to become Wisconsin governor.

Lake Effect's Sam Woods sits down with Addison Lathers, real estate reporter for the Milwaukee Business Journal, for a monthly roundup of local commercial real estate news. This month covers top stories from August 2026.

Milwaukee residents are urging the Public Service Commission to deny We Energies' proposed residential rate hike. The utility says the increase is necessary to improve reliability and infrastructure.

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.

Earlier this year, landlord David Tomblin's companies owned over 200 rental homes, but he is battling receivership, which would cut him off from management and rental income.