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Closures of Boston Store and Younkers outlets will affect hundreds of retail workers across Wisconsin. UW-Whitewater economist Russ Kashian explains trends in brick-and-mortar retail and what it means for both consumers and workers.
How much of an impact have tax cuts had on individual Wisconsinites — and whom?
The southeast corner of Wisconsin has consistently had the state's highest rates of evictions over the last 10 years, according to data from Princeton University's Eviction Lab.
Community members and advocacy groups opposing the bid by Foxconn and the city of Racine for Lake Michigan water are zeroing on a specific issue: The request amounts to a water utility sourcing the Great Lakes almost entirely for the use of one private company.
A 50-mile march from Madison to Janesville intentionally sought to emulate the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s, and the 54-mile marches in Alabama from Selma to Montgomery.
As awareness increases about the dangers of sports-related concussions and the culture that perpetuates these injuries, Dee Hall of the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism discusses what is happening at UW-Madison, in research labs and on the gridiron.
In the wake of the recent student marches to change gun policy, a group of 40 Wisconsin students walked 50 miles from Madison to Speaker Paul Ryan's district in Janesville to promote their plan for change.
As the dairy industry struggles with low prices in the face of a long-mounting milk glut, more farmers are finding that their woes are escalating.
Growing vegetables from seeds started indoors can be fun and rewarding.
More than 2,000 Wisconsin jobs hang in the balance as mass layoffs loom for employees of Bon-Ton Stores, Inc. Other big-box stores, such as JC Penney and Toys "R" Us, have also reported decreasing their workforce in Wisconsin in 2018.