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Improving watersheds with water quality testing

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Explores how changing rainfall patterns are affecting lakes and rivers in Wisconsin.

Improving watersheds with water quality testing

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Henry David Thoreau: Several More Lives to Live

The Wisconsin Channel

The Wisconsin Channel

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Family Travel With Colleen Kelly: Life Is a Journey -- A Caribbean Cruise

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Molly of Denali: No T for Me; Catch My Drift

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Mandela Barnes gestures with both hands while seated at a table with a phone, hat and sunglasses on its surface in front of him, in a room with an out-of-focus chest freezer and workbench in the background, and with the back of the heads of two seated people who are facing him in the foreground.

Barnes drops out of Wisconsin’s 2026 Democratic governor primary

Joel Brennan gestures with his left hand and holds a microphone in his right hand while standing in a room with a brick wall and stage curtain in the background.

Democrat Joel Brennan says he can win the governor’s race — if voters get to know him

Mindy Lohff poses for a portrait while standing in a storage room with wood shelves filled with cases of toilet paper, facial tissue, sanitary napkins, soaps, shampoos and other personal toiletry items, with stacks of canned and dry food items in the foreground.

Newcap closure leaves northeast Wisconsin scrambling to prevent more homelessness

Kelda Roys gestures with both hands while speaking into a microphone mounted to the top of a lectern in a room with a wood door in the background and the out-of-focus heads of people facing her in the foreground.

Kelda Roys leans on experience, attention to detail in second bid for governor

Bill Mihalski pointes with his right index finger toward a King piece on a wood chess board on a laminated wood table, with more than a half-dozen children seated around it in a room with a whiteboard with the letters ELA mounted on a painted concrete-block wall.

Pulaski tried to make summer school fun — 2,600 of the district’s kids showed up

Siding, wall studs and other types of wood debris sits in piles on the ground among trees stripped of leaves and small branches and in front of a damaged two-story house with no roof, with other damaged houses in the background.

Widespread damage in Menasha and Appleton area after tornado

Tom Tiffany speaks to a person facing him with two other people to his side while standing outside in front of other people standing and walking in front of a building with wood siding, multiple levels of corrugated metal roofs and a sign reading Tom Tiffany Governor.

As the Democratic primary heats up, Republican Tom Tiffany has campaigned for governor on his own terms

Bryna Godar and Frederica Freyberg sit facing each other on the Here & Now set.

‘Here & Now’ Highlights: Charles Franklin, Bryna Godar, Ryan Graham

A group of protestors march along a street at night while holding a fabric banner on two poles with the words Justice for Corey Ruiz, with buildings and trees on either side, and with an illuminated theater marquee sign reading New Orpheum and an illuminated dome of Beaux-Arts style building topped by a gilt statue in the background.

Madison grapples with Ruiz shooting as signature city events get canceled

Ben Crump speaks and gestures with his right hand while standing behind a wood podium with multiple microphones with the flags of different media organizations affixed to its surface, with Veronica Ruiz standing to his side holding her face in her hands and Sheila Stubbs holding Ruiz's left arm, in a room with a carved fireplace lintel, the Wisconsin flag, an electric wall sconce and toile wallpaper.

Attorney for the Ruiz family says Madison police officer should be criminally charged

A still image shows a crowd of people marching on the steps of the state Capitol, with a woman wearing a black graphic t-shirt in the foreground holding a sign that reads 'Justice for COREY!!!

Fallout from fatal Madison police shooting of Corey Ruiz

A still image shows Charles Franklin seated at the 'Here & Now' set featuring wood paneling, with a graphic at bottom reading 'Charles Franklin' and 'Marquette Law School Poll.'

Charles Franklin on 2026 Wisconsin governor primary matchups

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A slightly diagonal view into an empty indoor space with a uniform beige carpet. The drop ceiling has a visible column of rectangular light fixtures. The space is partitioned by interior walls. The muted wallpaper has repeating vertical chevrons and appears to be light yellow. No doors, windows or furniture of any kind are present.

How a furniture store in Oshkosh became a portal to another dimension

A man in a three-piece suit standing alongside columns of a building outdoors stares off-camera with a serious expression.

August 2026 streaming picks on PBS Passport

Victoria Findlay Wolfe shares quilted memories at The Great Wisconsin Quilt Show

Wisconsin Life host Angela Fitzgerald smiles, holding food on sticks, at an outdoor market at the Northern Wisconsin State Fair with colorful stalls. A camera operator films her, creating a lively, cheerful scene.

5 festivals to visit this summer with ‘Wisconsin Life’

Mindful media matchup: Launch learning with the PBS KIDS Games app

Red tomatoes in a large box at a market.

Garden & Green Living Expo experts unearth keys to a fruitful vegetable garden

Collage of scenes featuring public library staff in interviews and at work, including librarians standing in front of a presentation screen, walking through book stacks, shelving books and speaking on camera. Visible text includes a Madison Public Library staff name badge, a lower-third identifying a youth services librarian and a prompt asking, “What’s one thing you want your community to know?”

New short video series celebrates Wisconsin librarians

Five people in vintage 1930s-style swimwear and summer clothing pose together on a wooden pier beside a calm blue sea.

July 2026 streaming picks on PBS Passport

An astronaut floats in outer space with the Earth in the backdrop.

What’s new on PBS Wisconsin in July?

A woman receives an ice cream cone from a server behind the counter at the Windmill Ice Cream Shoppe in Tomahawk, Wisconsin.

Start spreading the moos — be part of National Dairy Month with ‘Wisconsin Life’

A cartoon lightbulb and kite in front of fireworks.

Four ways to celebrate the Fourth of July with PBS KIDS

A tattooed woodworker with purple hair, safety glasses, and ear protection marks a measurement on a piece of lumber in a workshop.

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