Why Catholic sisters sold land back to the Lac du Flambeau

Indigenous

Why Catholic sisters sold land back to the Lac du Flambeau

Confronting the painful legacy of Indian boarding schools, an order of Catholic sisters sold a plot on Trout Lake in northern Wisconsin to the Lac du Flambeau tribe as part of the land back movement.

November 13, 2025

Multiple vertical towers and horizontal bars are connected by an array of multiple power lines, with portions of connecting lines covered by glass insulators, form part of an electrical substation, under a cloudy sky.
Multiple vertical towers and horizontal bars are connected by an array of multiple power lines, with portions of connecting lines covered by glass insulators, form part of an electrical substation, under a cloudy sky.

Economy

Anthropic, Microsoft announce new AI data center projects as construction continues

Anthropic has announced a $50 billion investment in computing infrastructure, including new data centers in Texas and New York, while Microsoft has announced a new data center in Georgia, to be connected to another in Wisconsin to form a massive supercomputer.

November 13, 2025

An overhead view of the U.S. House of Representatives chamber, including its legislative dais with a U.S. flag behind the Speaker's podium and curved rows of desks facing the rear wall with dais and two sets of double doors, shows multiple people standing on the floor and seated in benches, with overlaid text reading On Motion to Concur in the Senate Amendment and vote totals for Yea, Nay, Pres and NV for Republican, Democratic and Independent members.
An overhead view of the U.S. House of Representatives chamber, including its legislative dais with a U.S. flag behind the Speaker's podium and curved rows of desks facing the rear wall with dais and two sets of double doors, shows multiple people standing on the floor and seated in benches, with overlaid text reading On Motion to Concur in the Senate Amendment and vote totals for Yea, Nay, Pres and NV for Republican, Democratic and Independent members.

Budgets

Trump signs a funding bill that ends the record 2025 federal government shutdown

Hours after the U.S. House of Representatives passed a funding bill on a mostly party-line vote, President Donald Trump has signed the measure to end a record 43-day-long federal government shutdown that magnified partisan divisions.

November 13, 2025

Kevin Rak on higher need at the River Food Pantry in Madison
Kevin Rak on higher need at the River Food Pantry in Madison

Economy

Kevin Rak on higher need at the River Food Pantry in Madison

The River Food Pantry volunteer Kevin Rak describes how the number and needs of people seeking help from the River Food Pantry in Madison are growing as grocery prices continue rising with inflation.

November 12, 2025 • South Central Region

Tawny Hardyman on losing staff during a government shutdown
Tawny Hardyman on losing staff during a government shutdown

Economy

Tawny Hardyman on losing staff during a government shutdown

Southwestern Wisconsin Community Action Program Head Start Director Tawny Hardyman describes how the 2025 federal government shutdown impacted staff retention and recruitment for the organization.

November 11, 2025 • Southwest Region

A person wearing a reflective safety vest stands in a driveway next to the open driver's window of a stopped vehicle among multiple traffic cones, in front of multiple vinyl advertising banners featuring the logo of a cannabis dispensary, the words Menominee and Welcome, a QR code, and directions for drivers, with utility poles and trees in the background.
A person wearing a reflective safety vest stands in a driveway next to the open driver's window of a stopped vehicle among multiple traffic cones, in front of multiple vinyl advertising banners featuring the logo of a cannabis dispensary, the words Menominee and Welcome, a QR code, and directions for drivers, with utility poles and trees in the background.

Politics

Residents of Menominee in Michigan vote to limit the city’s number of cannabis stores

Residents of two Michigan communities bordering other states have voted to ban or limit shops that sell cannabis products — in Menominee, on the Upper Peninsula's border with Wisconsin, nearly 8 in 10 voters approved limiting its number of marijuana shops to nine.

November 10, 2025 • Northeast Region

A woman walks through an open glass and metal door with a sign with a stylized logo of a grocery bag filled with an egg carton, apple, loaf of bread and milk carton along with the words We Accept EBT, USDA, Putting Healthy Food Within Reach and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
A woman walks through an open glass and metal door with a sign with a stylized logo of a grocery bag filled with an egg carton, apple, loaf of bread and milk carton along with the words We Accept EBT, USDA, Putting Healthy Food Within Reach and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

Courts

Trump administration renews appeal to the US Supreme Court to keep full SNAP payments frozen

The Trump administration is again asking the U.S. Supreme Court to keep full SNAP food aid payments on hold, with justices expected to decide whether to halt those lower court's orders to provide funding amid signs a federal government shutdown could soon end.

November 10, 2025

In Focus with Chris Kolakowski: Honoring Wisconsin veterans
In Focus with Chris Kolakowski: Honoring Wisconsin veterans

History

In Focus with Chris Kolakowski: Honoring Wisconsin veterans

Murv Seymour talks with Wisconsin Veterans Museum Director Chris Kolakowski at PBS Wisconsin about artifacts and landmarks that celebrate and tell stories of Wisconsinites who served in the military.

November 10, 2025

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

Politics

‘Here & Now’ Highlights: Rhonda Adams, Tawny Hardyman, State Sen. Jesse James

Here's what guests on the Nov. 7, 2025 episode said about high demand at food pantries, the closure of Head Start programs in southwest Wisconsin and a proposed law to define grooming of children.

November 10, 2025

A flag at half staff flies on a flagpole above a pediment with multiple statues supported by multiple rows of columns of a Neoclassical masonry building with a central dome.
A flag at half staff flies on a flagpole above a pediment with multiple statues supported by multiple rows of columns of a Neoclassical masonry building with a central dome.

Budgets

US Senate takes first step toward ending 2025 federal government shutdown

The U.S. Senate has taken the first step to end the federal government shutdown after eight Democrats agreed to proceed without a guaranteed extension of health care subsidies, voted to move toward passing compromise legislation for funding.

November 10, 2025