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The damning report outlines a number of internal and external factors at the district that have caused multiple failures.

Two Republicans who chair state legislative committees on energy and utilities say they want to bring more nuclear power online in Wisconsin in the coming years.

Wisconsin lawmakers are once again considering expanding Medicaid access for new mothers — a proposal that received bipartisan support in past sessions but has never received a vote in the state Assembly.

Wisconsin’s measuring stick for how students are performing in school changed this year when the state rolled out new testing standards. WPR set out to answer questions about standardized testing.

Now one of the region’s largest winter events, the annual Book Across the Bay race is coming Saturday in Ashland. Read how monitoring the weather has been a “roller coaster.”

A union representing nurses in Madison is asking the Wisconsin Supreme Court to require UW Health to collectively bargain despite Act 10 stripping those rights from most public employees in 2011.

Health officials in Milwaukee are testing more schools for high levels of lead after two more students have tested positive for lead poisoning. 

A lawsuit challenging Wisconsin Act 10 will take a while longer to make its way to the Wisconsin Supreme Court. But once it gets there, Justice Janet Protasiewicz plans to hear the case.

A recent settlement between two of the nation’s largest meatpackers is renewing questions about child labor and how to protect kids from working in the meatpacking industry.

A new hospital planned for a western Wisconsin city is moving forward after receiving approval from the city’s planning commission.