WUWM News

Conservatives on the Wisconsin Supreme Court block a citizens group from challenging a DNR land swap.

A 28-year-old Black transgender woman named Brazil Johnson was recently killed in Milwaukee. This week, a few dozen of Johnson’s loved ones gathered where she was killed for a vigil.

An unusual flotilla set out last week starting in Madison and ending 40 nautical miles downstream in the Rock River in Beloit. It featured a hand-hewn dugout canoe, fashioned after those used by long-ago ancestors of the Ho-Chunk Nation.

In an effort to boost college enrollment and affordability, Milwaukee Public Schools is set to make FAFSA completion a graduation requirement.

A local anti-abortion group responds that the state leaders' lawsuit against the 1849 law is disappointing.

Komatsu says it still has production workers at the facility it bought six years ago from P&H/Joy Global at the border of Milwaukee and West Milwaukee, near the Zablocki VA. But that older site will eventually be vacated and possibly sold for re-development. A watchdog group hopes mining for needed minerals won't repeat mistakes of past mining.

Wisconsin Democratic Senate candidates spell out their different backgrounds on abortion rights at the Democratic Convention.

If abortion opponents now try for major restrictions on abortion procedures in Wisconsin, they would be going against new polling data that show most state residents say abortion should be legal in all or most cases.

Wisconsin has an 1849 law that bans abortion, except to save the life of the mother. But whether that law is enforceable is expected to be the center of yet-to-be-filed lawsuits. Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul, a Democrat, said he would have news next week about next steps in reaction to the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling striking down Roe v. Wade.

Baby formula production is on the rise and the U.S. is working to import millions of pounds from around the world. But many families are still struggling to feed their children. Local leaders and parents discuss how they’ve worked to help others amid the shortage.