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Wisconsin Watch created a tool to show how counties and municipalities are spending millions intended to address the opioid crisis.
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a GOP-backed challenge to a decades-old campaign finance law that limits how much parties can spend in coordination with candidates for federal office.
Violent crime, nationally and in major cities, is lower than 25 years ago. Marquette University criminal justice professor Theodore Lentz charted rates for violent crime – murder, rape and sexual ...
The Federal Student Aid website confirms that unauthorized students — including DACA recipients — are ineligible for federal student aid. However, it notes that unauthorized immigrants can still seek ...
Yes. A quarter of the ad minutes that ran during the evening news in the first five months of this year were from pharmaceutical companies.
Homeless service providers rally together as federal funding cuts loom and the governor’s $24 million proposal gets cut.
There has been broad agreement about the greenhouse effect for over a century. In 1824, Joseph Fourier calculated that Earth ought to be much colder given its distance from the sun, and theorized that ...
Isolation and health problems are among the complex factors driving older adult suicides, while possible solutions include senior-centered community organizations, improving Medicare mental health ...
Michael Adams wants Black men to take care of themselves by listening to their instincts and trusting the health care system.
Workforce Pell grants will pay for short-term workforce training for low-income students. Here’s what that means for Wisconsin.
It’s been nearly a year since she’s heard from Milwaukee homicide detectives and more than 16 months since Javon, 21, was hanging out with a group of friends when someone opened fire on them. They ...
In Wisconsin, some had worried the frozen funds would prompt adult education and literacy programs to scale back, hindering workforce training.