WUWM News

Milwaukee Public Schools leaders announced their lead remediation plan for the 106 schools in the district built before 1978. It comes as the CDC has denied the city's request for help.

Earlier this year, wildfires ravaged Los Angeles for almost a month. Destroying historical landmarks and reshaping the city forever. It got a "Bubbler Talk" listener thinking: How have Milwaukee fires shaped the city? Where and how did the fires start?

Conservationists are working to increase access to environmental education in Milwaukee so students of color can connect with nature in their communities.

WUWM stopped by the Church of Gesu on Marquette University's campus to speak with people about the pontiff ahead of noon mass.

WUWM begins an Earth Week series on environmental and energy inequities.

Milwaukee County is home to the largest number of foster children in Wisconsin, but it doesn't have enough foster homes to ensure children are kept in their communities. One in three children entering foster care are placed more than 20 miles from their home.

On this week's episode of "Bubbler Talk," we answer a question about what happens to homes that are sold to cash buyers advertising around Milwaukee.

The 59-year-old campus will close this June due to under enrollment and financial constraints. This year, there were 589 students enrolled at UW-Waukesha.

The Trump administration is laying down tariffs, along with a few pauses, and local breweries say they are experiencing whiplash.

Although Milwaukee's request for extra staff from the CDC was initially approved, layoffs this month completely shuttered the federal agency's lead prevention unit.