A giant collection of legislation will be lumbering through Congress called the Farm Bill. It drives the country’s agricultural and food policy. Some advocates, including in Wisconsin, want to see more conservation and environmental measures this time around.

What would it cost to tend to the Mitchell Park Domes, Milwaukee County’s long-debated beehive-shaped horticultural conservatory? A county committee learned Tuesday it could cost tens of millions of dollars.

Famed landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted designed the Lake Park. He included a short, curvy road that cuts through a ravine. The picturesque drive links Lincoln Memorial Dr. below to Lake Drive above. Drivers haven’t been able to traverse the ravine for nearly a decade.

The City of Waukesha is on the verge of delivering Lake Michigan water to residents who have been — for years — drinking water from radium-tainted wells. It’s been a long road to revelry.

While many universities welcome students back this time of year, research doesn’t follow an academic clock. Take the work of Jim Waples at the UWM School of Freshwater Sciences. This summer, the scientist and his students were out analyzing samples taken from Lake Michigan.

Congress is currently deliberating the bundle of legislation that could have a big impact on Wisconsin’s 64,000 farms and their operators. Michael Dolan is one the many Wisconsin farmers interested in the bill and concerned about the future of farming.

Two-hundred-fifty people gathered along Lake Michigan at South Shore Park Beach earlier this month. It was a celebration of the lake itself and the importance of freshwater in every facet of life.

The city still has tens of thousands of lead lines delivering drinking water to Milwaukee households, posing a risk to children’s health and development. Local leaders are counting on federal dollars to speed up their replacement.

Residents of a small town northeast of Rhinelander continue to look for answers in their fight against PFAS contamination impacting private wells.

The Wisconsin DNR and other groups want to make it easier for fish trying to travel upstream along the Milwaukee River during spawning season. That’s why crews have been moving earth and water along Kletzsch Dam in Glendale this summer, creating what’s known as a "fish passage."