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On Small Business Saturday (Nov. 30), at Milwaukee's Turner Hall Ballroom, you can find more than 40 of Milwaukee's Black entrepreneurs, along with a food court, entertainment and local organizations tabling.

A local activist group and the mothers of two inmates who died inside the Milwaukee County Jail are criticizing a recently released audit of the facility.

For avid hunters the nine-day gun deer season is a cherished ritual. But some people want to increase awareness that lead ammunition used by many hunters could contaminate the venison they harvest.

America’s Black Holocaust Museum commemorated Transgender Day of Remembrance this week. The annual observance honors lives lost to anti-transgender violence.

A new exhibit at the Milwaukee County Historical Society explores Wisconsin’s contributions to pop culture.

The Milwaukee-based lawyer also had other high-profile cases.

Hundreds gathered last week for the city’s first public meeting on how Milwaukee officials plan to redesign North Water Street.

Right now, Wisconsin families have a chance to take advantage of significant funding to make their homes more energy efficient. The funding is part of the Inflation Reduction Act the biggest boost to climate action the United States has ever seen. Green Homeowners United is one of the groups helping Wisconsin homeowners jump aboard.

Late last week, the Wisconsin DNR signed off on a controversial liquid petroleum pipeline project in northern Wisconsin. Rerouting a portion of Enbridge Line 5 has been the subject of wide debate and packed public hearings.

Meagan Wolfe continues as Wisconsin Elections Administrator in a legal case against Republican lawmakers.

There are plenty of rumblings about how the environment will fare when former President Donald Trump returns to the Oval Office. One of the people thinking about what’s ahead is Tia Nelson.

People hoping for a little relief when it comes to handling household expenses won’t find it on their utility bill.

Milwaukee area residents are weighing in on the results of the presidential election, and they have mixed reactions to Donald Trump's victory.

Threats of violence against election workers have risen in recent years. In response, election workers across Wisconsin have taken trainings to protect their physical safety.

Control of the Wisconsin state Legislature is up for grabs. The 61st Assembly District race might show what matters more to voters: personal connections or national political priorities.

Nearly 70% of the county voted for President Joe Biden in 2020, but former President Donald Trump has been competing for votes here too.

A pro-Palestinian coalition continues to raise concern about the lack of a ceasefire in Gaza and continued U.S. military aid to Israel. But some Harris voters look at other issues.

While some people are making voting plans for Election Day, Milwaukee activists are campaigning for formerly incarcerated people to have their voting rights restored.

With early voting underway and Election Day approaching, Milwaukee-area clerks share how they’re preparing for potential record turnout.

Kamala Harris, Cardi B, Bill Clinton, and Kerry Washington are among those on Harris' list of visitors who have been in town over the past five days or are scheduled to visit on Friday night, Nov. 1. Donald Trump is also speaking in Milwaukee.

A new exhibit at the Milwaukee Public Museum explores MPM’s history and explains why opening a new museum is essential.

The names Walz, Vance, Trump and Harris are all on the visitors list this week in Wisconsin.

The fundraiser for Ukraine comes as many wonder what the next President of the United States will do for their beloved country.

The Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz speaks at Memorial Hall in Racine, Wis., and holds a roundtable at a Black-owned business.

Recently an unwanted guest was discovered in one of Wisconsin's must popular tourist destinations – Geneva Lake. Scientists and local groups are grappling with the first-documented invasive quagga mussels in a Wisconsin inland lake.

And "The West Wing" cast fires up Democratic get out the early vote volunteers in Waukesha.

Through a new effort, called Pints and Patriotism, advocacy groups are bringing together veterans in swing states around the country, including in Wisconsin, to talk about — and advance— democracy, over beers.

As the Democratic presidential nominee holds a no-media meeting with some University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee students, hundreds outside protest or take in the scene.

WUWM visited a basement workshop in Menomonee Falls and a beverage plant in Random Lake to see two of the four finalists in a statewide innovation contest.

We look at why the area matters, vote-wise, in this year's battle with Republicans.

The theater in Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin home appears to rise naturally from its sloped surroundings in Spring Green, Wisconsin. Yet shoring up and upgrading the Hillside Theater over the past five years has been a gargantuan and expensive task.

Come Nov. 5, Milwaukee County voters will elect a new district attorney. John Chisholm has been in the role since 2007. Ahead of his departure, Chisholm sits down for an interview with WUWM.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday on a budget veto by Gov. Tony Evers that would affect school funding through 2425.

Republican presidential nominee and former President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally in Juneau, Wis., as Democrats offer various counterarguments.

A UWM expert says cross-party endorsements may help, but only to a point.

How much should customers have to pay for energy? That was the topic of hearings in downtown Milwaukee.

Both the Republican presidential candidate and the Second Gentleman spoke in battleground Milwaukee Tuesday.

The New York Mets are back in town for a best-of-three Wild Card series. Can the Brewers win, and move on? Fans weigh in.

Homeowners and businesses could see double-digit increases over two years. The utility says the money could reduce power outages and fuel more renewable energy.

Wisconsin plays a pivotal role in the presidential election. That’s one of the reasons why the Wisconsin Historical Society is collecting political artifacts this election year.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court restored use of absentee ballot drop boxes in July, but did not require communities to use them.

Grain elevators once were commonplace across the country. Now they're few and far between. Despite all odds, one granary dating back to 1901 is coming back to life in Door County along Sturgeon Bay’s waterfront.

Two joint councils representing 18,000 Teamsters members in Wisconsin support the Democratic ticket.

Milwaukee civil rights pioneer and politician Vel Phillips is now the first African American woman to have a monument on the Wisconsin State Capitol grounds. It’s one step toward making Wisconsin’s public art more representative of its rich, diverse history.

Murals help tell the less-documented stories of the diverse people that make up Milwaukee.

We talk to northern Wisconsin voters as Democratic Vice President candidate Tim Walz makes a swing through the area.

For the first part of WUWM's new series "Reflections of Representation," we walk through Juneau park to visit some of Milwaukee's first monuments.

In Wisconsin, a growing number of conservatives who dislike Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump are thinking about whether they could actually vote for Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris.

The city’s Environmental Collaboration Office just launched a new initiative to tackle food waste, food insecurity and climate change.

Dozens of public housing residents continue to voice their grievances with the Milwaukee Housing Authority. For years, residents have made thousands of complaints about public safety, maintenance, accessibility and bed bugs.

How will farmers cope with the environmental stresses of climate change? There’s momentum to grow crops indoors in urban settings. We visit Hundred Acres, an indoor farm in Milwaukee's 30th Street Corridor.

The blowing of a traditional horn outside the Jewish Community Center highlights a month of reflection about the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks on Israel and their aftermath.

Establishing a new nut industry has been a tough nut to crack. But experts say the crop could diversify agricultural economies and bring environmental benefits to depleted farmland.

Work is underway to create more resilient food production systems in the face of climate change. That includes within the Ho-Chunk Nation in Wisconsin.

Partly for environmental reasons, the Zoo has been selling off its two coal-burning iron horses and replacing them with two more diesel-powered ones this year.

A pay-what-you-can café in the Sherman Park neighborhood in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, relies on locally grown and donated produce. It’s a model its creators believe can be easily replicated.

The money for renewable energy will help Dairyland Power Cooperative purchase energy from four solar farms and four wind farms.

The Teamsters are one union that has yet to endorse a presidential candidate, but some local members are talking about the contest.

At a recent meeting in Glendale, WI, members of the AANHPI Coalition for Harris spoke about their hopes for a Harris presidency.

During a Wisconsin campaign stop Thursday night, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump promoted a plan to help in-vitro fertilization, or IVF. But Democrats question his sincerity.

The Medical College of Wisconsin’s newest four-year training program aims to increase the number of physicians who choose to practice medicine in Milwaukee and specifically care for underserved, at-risk populations in the city.

Democratic Party offices around Wisconsin have been fielding a surge of requests for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz yard signs, but they've had to tell eager supporters that they don't have them yet due to the late change in the Democratic party ticket.

The Wisconsin Election Commission rejects efforts to knock Kennedy, West and Stein off the November ballot.

Federal Highway Administrator Shailen Bhatt says the new chargers are planned to fill gaps in the existing charging network.

Members of Hephatha Lutheran Church are using data to make informed decisions about their respiratory health. The data comes from a growing network of sensors across the city’s elementary schools.

The Green Party says its newly hired lawyer will be racing Friday to meet a State Supreme Court deadline issued Thursday for responding to a legal request by Democrats.

A portrait project that tells the stories of people’s connection to hoop earrings is opening at the Racine Art Museum at the end of the month.

As urged by Rep. Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Cory Booker, delegates to the Democratic National Convention anticipate being busy for candidates this fall.

Vice President Kamala Harris and two candidates for vice president, Tim Walz (Democrat) and JD Vance (Republican), all campaigned in Wisconsin on Tuesday.

You may have noticed swarms of dragonflies along the Lake Michigan shoreline in recent weeks. Resident dragonflies and migrating ones are converging on the landscape.

Major rallies are expected near the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Milwaukee will be represented.

Wisconsin Native Vote sponsored a Brewers tailgate Thursday, saying it wanted to do something fun to promote its ongoing effort to encourage Native Americans in Wisconsin to vote.

The police shooting of Jacob Blake, and the subsequent killings of two protesters, Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber, and the injury of a third by then-Illinois resident Kyle Rittenhouse two days later sparked outrage and political divisions in Kenosha. Where are voters now?

The Republican-proposed constitutional amendments, which Gov. Tony Evers called an attempted 'power grab' on handing out federal money, were rejected by about 15 percentage points.

In the Aug. 13 primary election, incumbent Rep. Ryan Clancy faces a challenge from fellow Democrat Jarrod Anderson.

August 11 will mark Milwaukee Water Commons’ tenth annual We Are Water celebration at the newly restored McKinley Beach.

This year marks the ten year anniversary of Black Arts MKE, a non-profit aimed at increasing the availability and quality of African American arts and culture.

The August release of the Marquette Law School poll shows some important shifts in the race, but as is often the case, Wisconsin looks narrowly divided in the presidential race.

The Democratic ticket held a rally in Eau Claire, and GOP VP nominee J.D. Vance was also in the city.

Eau Claire residents react to the new Democratic ticket and the arrival of GOP VP hopeful J.D. Vance.

Woodworking is not traditionally a woman’s field — especially among women of color — but one Milwaukee native is defying the odds. Tonda Thompson is setting up shop, including her own sawmill, in the Harambee neighborhood.

The proposed state constitutional amendments would give the legislature more say-so over spending federal dollars.

Ever since the proliferation of election denialism and the threats that it spurred, local groups have been working to equip people with information to counteract it.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg visited a federally-supported port facility in Manitowoc on Tuesday, and on Wednesday, he made two stops in Milwaukee that were open to the news media. Buttigieg hailed Biden Administration infrastructure spending but didn't discuss the Democratic ticket.

A roaring crowd of battleground state voters greeted Vice President Kamala Harris in Wisconsin as she opened her Democratic political case against Republican former President Donald Trump. In her first rally since locking up the presidential nomination, she said Tuesday that in the November election against Trump, “it's a choice between freedom and chaos.”

Milwaukee Riverkeeper is a local nonprofit that’s been striving to achieve swimmable and fishable waters for nearly 30 years. “Cleanup” is Milwaukee Riverkeeper’s middle name. Now, it’s adding a couple of high-tech tools to its arsenal.

Monday, July 22, was Climate Emergency Day. Young people joined a chorus of people in cities around the world — calling for climate action. That includes a group that gathered in Madison, Wisconsin.

Wauwatosa resident David Stack was among the several thousand volunteers who helped the Republican National Convention run smoothly last week. Stack might not seem like the guy who’d raise his hand to volunteer at the huge GOP event. The self-described progressive leans Democrat.

On the last day of the RNC, people rallied in Milwaukee, speaking out against police violence. They called for justice for Samuel ‘Jah’ Sharpe Jr., who was shot and killed by police earlier this week, and D’Vontaye Mitchell, who was killed after being restrained by hotel security guards in June.

The GOP presidential candidate tries to leave on good terms with the city of Milwaukee and state of Wisconsin.

Past statements and action by the Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance have raised concerns here and abroad.

Restaurants and businesses inside the RNC's soft perimeter expected to see an economic boon this week. So far, the only economic impact has been bad business.

Officials say police officers have shot and killed a person in Milwaukee about five blocks outside of the Republican National Convention’s outer security perimeter.

Eric Hovde, a leading Republican challenging Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin this year, speaks at the RNC.

Temperatures reached nearly 90 degrees Monday, but that didn’t stop people from turning out by the thousands for a demonstration downtown. The Coalition to March on the RNC hosted a rally in Red Arrow Park in protest of the Republican National Convention.

Delegates at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee are excited to envision a future under the direction of former President Donald Trump.

A Sunday ceremony outside American Family Field is bittersweet for relatives.

Milwaukee Police Chief Jeffrey Norman details how the department trained and prepped for the Republican National Convention.