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More than 5,000 athletes are descending on Milwaukee for the 2026 USA Triathlon. They’ll be jumping into Lake Michigan for the swimming portion of the race.
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Almost one year after the devastating August 2025 floods, the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District outlines what it’s doing to prevent flooding when future storms hit.
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The National Weather Service has issued a heat advisory from Tuesday, July 14, through Wednesday, July 15, at 8 p.m.
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The City Plan Commission tabled a decision on a proposed redevelopment of the former Midtown Center Walmart, which closed in 2016. But what's in the proposal, and what's to come next month?
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On June 29, a City of Milwaukee committee is slated to consider a small but controversial data center. It would be located at a vacant Walmart near 60th and West Capitol Drive.
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Developers pitched a 500-acre project for rural Grant County but, as opposition mounted, they ‘ghosted’ the county’s point person. The potential deal appears to be dead.
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Beyond Our Senses is a new documentary that follows thousands of Bank swallows as they migrate from South America to Milwaukee's bluffs in the spring.
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In July 1952, Oconto, WI was overrun with an estimated 175 million frogs, as residents reported the amphibians covering windows, lawns and roads all summer. More than 70 years later, you'd never know it happened.
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Milwaukee has been cleaning up its beaches and rivers. Now it’s joining an international coalition committed to swimmable urban waters.
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Something unique is in store for folks planning to take in Milwaukee’s Juneteenth parade Friday. They’ll experience a 30-foot-long “living river.” It’s the creation of Milwaukee Water Commons and lots of volunteers.
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Every year, the Milwaukee Public Museum teams up with a park or natural area to take a 24-hour survey of plants and animals found there. This year, scientists converged at Wehr Nature Center in Franklin.
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A crowd gathered at the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District headquarters for a meeting about what company should run MMSD’s two wastewater treatment facilities in 2028.