History

Repairing a broken tornado warning siren would cost too much for the Town of Greenbush, said the town board’s chair.

Author Rachel Gross joined WPR’s “Wisconsin Today” to share the history of outdoor recreation marketing and some of its Wisconsin ties.

“For us, it’s about providing these opportunities to showcase Wausau and Marathon County’s history,” Opal-Wahoske told WPR. “It helps us appreciate how far we’ve come and provides context for where we’re going, all while remembering how we celebrated the holidays 100 years ago.”

Listen to a playlist from the director of the new Green Bay punk rock doc “Green Blah,” that highlights early local bands like The Tyrants and No Response.

Forest Home Cemetery in Milwaukee is developing a care plan after two mounds were recently identified on the property. Elsewhere in the state, volunteers with the the Effigy Mounds Initiative work to preserve mounds by cataloguing them and removing invasive vegetation.

“World War II Dispatches to Madison: Letters Home From an Army Air Corps Soldier” chronicles Bob’s time in Europe as a radio mechanic from January 1943 to September 1945.  

A missing 7-year-old Two Rivers boy was found dead Sunday after an overnight search. The Two Rivers Police Department released a statement confirming they had recovered the body of Jacob […]

From stories of buried treasure to tales of mistaken identity, the lore of the Northwoods keeps the spirit of the Prohibition era alive.

From crime prevention to dementia awareness, the Woman’s Club of Pewaukee has served the region for 120 years. The group’s past president shares more about their work with “Wisconsin Today.”

More than a century after being buried, and decade after being exhumed, a group of Milwaukee County residents are still awaiting a final resting place