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The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is calling on ice fishing enthusiasts to take care after a rash of fatalities involving recreational vehicles.

Wisconsin scientists and state officials say they’re worried a sweeping effort to modify the Centers for Disease Control website site to comply with President Donald Trump’s executive orders could undermine years of federal data.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court has ruled unanimously that the state’s top election official can keep her job despite Republican attempts to remove her from office.

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.

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

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. 

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.

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.