Search results for

WUWM's environmental reporter, Susan Bence, spoke with people in Oak Creek who are looking to begin a new chapter in that community’s history books by…

Wisconsinites would like to see the state spend money from its projected budget surplus on education and Medicaid, according to the results of a new poll…

At the turn of the last century prominent Chicago families gravitated to Lake Geneva.In 1888 beer baron Conrad Seipps built his family retreat, an…

Plenty of journalists have covered – over the past year or so – the often hostile legislative and environmental battle that surrounded proposed iron or…

A new report offers a mixed review of the state of the health of the Great Lakes.Twenty-five years ago, the International Joint Commission – made up of…

We learn how one woman's cells changed the course of medicine. Rebecca Skloot is the author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, published by Crown.…

If you’re a listener of a certain age, you probably recognize the title of poet B.J. Best’s new collection of prose poetry called But Our Princess is in…

Some veterans feel like they can't discuss their combat experiences, but a new art exhibit gives them voice.Veterans have received different responses…

The next time a bartender asks you what you’re having, you could say you’re in the mood for that heady combination of juniper, grains of paradise,…

Lake Effect essayist Young Kim say coercing food stamp recipients to buy only “healthy food” is the wrong way to go about it.Assembly Bill 110 is wending…