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Ripley Johnson sat down with WPR’s “BETA” resident musicologist Steve Gotcher to talk about the group’s newly released fifth album, “Sol Y Sombra,” the collective unconcious, and Ripley’s ability to lean in to his influences to create something new.

Richard Price talks with WPR’s “BETA” about his latest novel. It’s inspired by the tragic true story of a gas leak, an explosion and the collapse of a five-story tenement in East Harlem in 2014. 

Urban planner Brian Stone Jr. is the author of “Radical Adaptation: Transforming Cities for a Climate Changed World.”

Maclain and Chapman Way are the brothers behind the Netflix documentary “The Kings of Tupelo: A Southern Crime Saga.” Hear from the creators of the docuseries.

Candidates vying for state superintendent made their cases at a forum in Madison Thursday, with Brittany Kinser defending her qualifications amidst a report that she holds no active Wisconsin educational license.

The Milwaukee County Zoo is closing its aviary for “the foreseeable future” as a precaution against highly contagious avian flu, the zoo announced Thursday.

There are dangerous levels of lead dust in two Milwaukee public schools, the city’s Health Department announced Thursday.

Under the Republican proposal, DPI would have to use the same benchmark scores, score ranges and corresponding qualitative descriptions that were used on school report cards published in the 2019-20 school year.

Leaders from a Dane County community are seeking state support for building a new Buc-ee’s mega gas station on the outskirts of Interstate 90/94. 

The chief of the Private Water Section at the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources joined WPR’s “The Larry Meiller Show” to explain the importance of testing private wells for nitrate and bacteria every year, and testing for arsenic every five years.