Wisconsin Senate Republicans vote to override nine Evers vetoes on PFAS funds, other bills
The Republican-controlled Wisconsin Senate voted to override nine vetoes of Democratic Gov. Tony Evers in a mostly symbolic action that Republican candidates may use on the 2024 campaign trail.
May 14, 2024
Utilities start work on transmission line crossing in Mississippi River wildlife refuge
ITC Midwest and Dairyland Power Cooperative have started construction on the final mile of the contentious Cardinal-Hickory Creek transmission line where it crosses the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge near Cassville.
May 14, 2024 • Southwest Region
Rural Wisconsin voters face hurdles aside from the ballot drop box ban
As the Wisconsin Supreme Court considers whether to again allow absentee voters to cast their ballots in drop boxes, local clerks explain how the 2022 ban has made election administration more complicated.
May 14, 2024
Wisconsin Supreme Court hears challenge to state’s 2022 ballot drop box ban
Liberal justices who control the Wisconsin Supreme Court show signs in oral arguments of being willing to overturn the high court's July 2022 ruling that said state law doesn't allow for absentee ballot drop boxes to be placed anywhere other than in election clerk offices, halting their use in the state.
May 13, 2024
Wildfire smoke from Canada blankets upper Midwest for a second straight year
Smoke from fires burning in British Columbia and Alberta had settled over parts of Montana, the Dakotas, Minnesota and Wisconsin, with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources issuing health advisories for multiple counties across the northern two-thirds of the state.
May 13, 2024
‘Here & Now’ Highlights: Douglas McLeod, William Gardner, Jane Graham Jennings, Dr. Julie Owen
Here's what guests on the May 10, 2024 episode said about campus protests over Gaza, decriminalizing cannabis on Ho-Chunk Nation lands, falling federal funding for crime victim services, and the disputed diagnosis of "excited delirium."
May 13, 2024
Cyberattack forces Ascension health system to divert ambulances and take records offline
A cyberattack on the Ascension health system, which operates in 19 states across the U.S. including Wisconsin, forced some of its 140 hospitals to divert ambulances, caused patients to postpone tests and blocked online access to medical records.
May 13, 2024
Douglas McLeod on impacts of pro-Palestinian campus protests
UW-Madison journalism professor Douglas McLeod considers media coverage about and political implications of demonstrations that demand the university divest from companies and institutions in Israel.
May 10, 2024 • South Central Region
Jane Graham Jennings on funding for crime victim services
The Women's Community Executive Director Jane Graham Jennings describes how a drop in federal funding for grants to help victims of crimes impacts the Wausau-based agency's capacity to provide aid.
May 10, 2024 • West Central Region
William Gardner on the Ho-Chunk Nation and cannabis laws
Ho-Chunk Nation Attorney General William Gardner discusses the tribal legislature voting to decriminalize cannabis on its lands and how this action intersects with state and federal marijuana laws.
May 10, 2024
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