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Ilse Knecht on untested rape kits from Wisconsin’s backlog

Ilse Knecht on untested rape kits from Wisconsin's backlog

End the Backlog Initiative policy director Ilse Knecht discusses reasons given by the state to not test more than 2,000 sexual assault evidence kits in Wisconsin when working through a 2010s backlog.

A man stands in front of a mobile metal voting booth with two bases, a stand and multiple folding privacy screens, with another voting both behind him and an open wood door in front of him, in a room with a whiteboard and large monitor on a wall in the background and a low-pile carpet, with an out-of-focus painted box with the words Ballot Box on a table on a side wall.

What to know one week out from the 2025 Wisconsin Supreme Court election

Elon Musk, while wearing a baseball cap with the numerals 45-47 on its right side, looks over his right shoulder while sits at one end of a long, oval table with other people seated around it, with paper name tents, glasses, papers, a cord and other items on its surface.

The first big US political test in 2025 becomes a referendum on Elon Musk

In Focus with Susan Kerns: Celebrating cinema in Milwaukee

In Focus with Susan Kerns: Celebrating cinema in Milwaukee

Frederica Freyberg sits at a desk on the Here & Now set and faces a video monitor showing an image of Matt Joski.

'Here & Now' Highlights: Sheriff Matt Joski, Greg Clement

Susan Crawford and Brad Schimel sit next to each other and speak in a room with U.S. and Wisconsin flags next to a wall with vertical wood slats.

Abortion continues to be a key issue in the politics of the Wisconsin Supreme Court

Donald Trump points upwards with the index finger of his right hand while speaking outdoors, with out-of-focus trees in the background.

Trump endorses Schimel in the 2025 race for a Wisconsin Supreme Court seat

Wisconsin’s tribal nations state their priorities for 2025

Wisconsin's tribal nations state their priorities for 2025

Greg Clement on tariffs, trade and Wisconsin manufacturing

Greg Clement on tariffs, trade and Wisconsin manufacturing

A still image from a video shows Matt Joski seated in front of a wall covered in an American flag made of wood and other framed items with a graphic at bottom reading 'Kewaunee,' 'Sheriff Matt Joski' and 'Kewaunee County.'

Sheriff Matt Joski on local enforcement of immigration laws

Elon Musk uses both hands to open both sides of a coat to expose a t-shirt with the letters DOGE printed on its front, while standing outdoors in low light at night.

Musk group offers $100 to voters in Wisconsin ahead of the state's 2025 Supreme Court election

Dr. Jill Underly, Brittany Kinser on the Dept. of Education

Dr. Jill Underly, Brittany Kinser on the Dept. of Education

The rape kit backlog and Wisconsin’s 2025 Supreme Court race

The rape kit backlog and Wisconsin's 2025 Supreme Court race

A man stands in front of a mobile metal voting booth with two bases, a stand and multiple folding privacy screens, with another voting both behind him and an open wood door in front of him, in a room with a whiteboard and large monitor on a wall in the background and a low-pile carpet, with an out-of-focus painted box with the words Ballot Box on a table on a side wall.

What to know one week out from the 2025 Wisconsin Supreme Court election

Elon Musk, while wearing a baseball cap with the numerals 45-47 on its right side, looks over his right shoulder while sits at one end of a long, oval table with other people seated around it, with paper name tents, glasses, papers, a cord and other items on its surface.

The first big US political test in 2025 becomes a referendum on Elon Musk

In Focus with Susan Kerns: Celebrating cinema in Milwaukee

In Focus with Susan Kerns: Celebrating cinema in Milwaukee

Frederica Freyberg sits at a desk on the Here & Now set and faces a video monitor showing an image of Matt Joski.

'Here & Now' Highlights: Sheriff Matt Joski, Greg Clement

Susan Crawford and Brad Schimel sit next to each other and speak in a room with U.S. and Wisconsin flags next to a wall with vertical wood slats.

Abortion continues to be a key issue in the politics of the Wisconsin Supreme Court

Donald Trump points upwards with the index finger of his right hand while speaking outdoors, with out-of-focus trees in the background.

Trump endorses Schimel in the 2025 race for a Wisconsin Supreme Court seat

Wisconsin’s tribal nations state their priorities for 2025

Wisconsin's tribal nations state their priorities for 2025

Greg Clement on tariffs, trade and Wisconsin manufacturing

Greg Clement on tariffs, trade and Wisconsin manufacturing

A still image from a video shows Matt Joski seated in front of a wall covered in an American flag made of wood and other framed items with a graphic at bottom reading 'Kewaunee,' 'Sheriff Matt Joski' and 'Kewaunee County.'

Sheriff Matt Joski on local enforcement of immigration laws

Elon Musk uses both hands to open both sides of a coat to expose a t-shirt with the letters DOGE printed on its front, while standing outdoors in low light at night.

Musk group offers $100 to voters in Wisconsin ahead of the state's 2025 Supreme Court election

Dr. Jill Underly, Brittany Kinser on the Dept. of Education

Dr. Jill Underly, Brittany Kinser on the Dept. of Education

The rape kit backlog and Wisconsin’s 2025 Supreme Court race

The rape kit backlog and Wisconsin's 2025 Supreme Court race

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Brittany Kinser, Dr. Jill Underly on education in Wisconsin

Brittany Kinser, Dr. Jill Underly on education in Wisconsin

Abigail Swetz on Trump, LGBTQ+ policy and transgender people

Abigail Swetz on Trump, LGBTQ+ policy and transgender people

‘B’ on their life as a transgender man in public spaces

'B' on their life as a transgender man in public spaces

WILL, Law Forward and the 2025 Wisconsin Supreme Court race

WILL, Law Forward and the 2025 Wisconsin Supreme Court race

Suzanne Eckes on deep cuts to the US Department of Education

Suzanne Eckes on deep cuts to the US Department of Education

Fears rise among trans people under political persecution

Fears rise among trans people under political persecution

Susan Crawford, Brad Schimel on transgender rights and law

Susan Crawford, Brad Schimel on transgender rights and law

President Jon Greendeer on the value of higher education

President Jon Greendeer on the value of higher education

Carla Vigue on Native students and ‘Relatives’ at UW-Madison

Carla Vigue on Native students and 'Relatives' at UW-Madison

South Central Region

Zoe Engberg on impacts of attack ads in elections for judges

Zoe Engberg on impacts of attack ads in elections for judges

Snow covers a hillside lawn with shoveled sidewalks and leafless trees, surrounded by buildings with snow-covered roofs and roads with vehicles and pedestrians, with a wooded urban landscape and ice-covered lake extending to the horizon.

How UW-Madison's aid for Native students addresses history

South Central Region

Mariel Barnes on the ‘manosphere’ and American politics

Mariel Barnes on the 'manosphere' and American politics

More Here & Now 2025

Dr. Jill Underly, Brittany Kinser on the Dept. of Education

Dr. Jill Underly, Brittany Kinser on the Dept. of Education

The rape kit backlog and Wisconsin’s 2025 Supreme Court race

The rape kit backlog and Wisconsin's 2025 Supreme Court race

Brittany Kinser, Dr. Jill Underly on education in Wisconsin

Brittany Kinser, Dr. Jill Underly on education in Wisconsin

Indigenous

Wisconsin’s tribal nations state their priorities for 2025

Wisconsin's tribal nations state their priorities for 2025

A letter sign reading College of Menominee Nation is attached to the wood-sided wall of a single-story building with a glass-walled atrium and sloped roof, with multiple conifer trees and a metal utility pole standing next to a sidewalk and road in the foreground.

College of Menominee Nation training program and student scholarships left adrift after USDA grant is suspended

President Jon Greendeer on the value of higher education

President Jon Greendeer on the value of higher education

In Focus with Susan Kerns: Celebrating cinema in Milwaukee

In Focus with Susan Kerns: Celebrating cinema in Milwaukee

In Focus with Saghar Homayounpour: 2024 Teacher of the Year

In Focus with Saghar Homayounpour: 2024 Teacher of the Year

In Focus with John Ridley: Storytelling, film and community

In Focus with John Ridley: Storytelling, film and community

Wisconsin Regional News

Southeast Region

In Focus with Susan Kerns: Celebrating cinema in Milwaukee

In Focus with Susan Kerns: Celebrating cinema in Milwaukee

Greg Clement on tariffs, trade and Wisconsin manufacturing

Trump Jr. casts the 2025 Wisconsin Supreme Court race as key to advancing Trump's agenda

Mary Pitsch on the idea and goals of Livasu dementia village

Southeast Region News

Northeast Region

A still image from a video shows Matt Joski seated in front of a wall covered in an American flag made of wood and other framed items with a graphic at bottom reading 'Kewaunee,' 'Sheriff Matt Joski' and 'Kewaunee County.'

Sheriff Matt Joski on local enforcement of immigration laws

A birthing center in Waupaca closes in the wake of a health system merger

College of Menominee Nation training program and student scholarships left adrift after USDA grant is suspended

Waupun Correctional Institution reports its seventh inmate death in the past 2 years

Northeast Region News

South Central Region

Satya Rhodes-Conway speaks into an out-of-focus microphone with the flag of a media organization, with an out-of-focus person standing behind her.

Madison's mayor suspends city clerk over uncounted ballots

Carla Vigue on Native students and 'Relatives' at UW-Madison

Wisconsin Democrats hold 'People vs. Musk' town hall to issue call to action for the 2025 spring election

Wisconsin election officials to depose Madison workers over uncounted ballots

South Central Region News

Northern Region

A printed sign with the seal of the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa above the words Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indian Reservation, By Order of the Lac du Flambeau Tribal Council There Shall Be No Trespassing, No Trapping, No Hunting on Tribal Lands by Non-Band Members, Offenders Will Be Prosecuted in the LDF Tribal Court System and contact information is attached to a wood road barrier with a metal chain hanging underneath it above a road covered in snow.

Tribal sovereignty at center of Wisconsin road dispute

Federal judge orders Lac du Flambeau roads to remain open

Wisconsin's rural homelessness crisis and the ongoing fight to do 'more with less'

Wisconsin detects a human bird flu case in Barron County

Northern Region News

West Central Region

Stephen Nick on transports of unhoused people to Eau Claire

Stephen Nick on transports of unhoused people to Eau Claire

David Minor on the Chippewa Valley's health care needs, gaps

US Supreme Court rejects challenge to an Eau Claire schools policy covering transgender students

Sydney Widell, Nancy Wedwick on floods, dams and community

West Central Region News

Southwest Region

Sydney Widell, Nancy Wedwick on floods, dams and community

Sydney Widell, Nancy Wedwick on floods, dams and community

Dave Eggen on opposing plans to remove dams in the Driftless

Mark Erickson on assessing earthen dam stability and failure

Bob Micheel on plans to remove Coon Creek dams after floods

Southwest Region News

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