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News In Your Area
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Petition seeks state listing of wolves as bills seek to remove federal protections
Conservation advocates are petitioning the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources to list the gray wolf as a state-threatened or endangered species as Republicans in Congress seek to remove federal protections for the animal.
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‘No Kings’ protests will be held in communities across Wisconsin SaturdayÂ
Over 50 other protests are planned in Wisconsin as part of the national movement, which falls on the same day that Trump will hold a massive military parade in Washington D.C.
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New program gives advanced medical training for rural health care providers in Wisconsin
The Orion Initiative is a new program offered by the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health that aims to expand advanced medical training to rural communities.Â
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Citizen science project tracks tick-borne disease risks across Wisconsin
As tick season returns to Wisconsin, the Marshfield Clinic Research Institute is once again calling on residents to take part in a statewide project that could lead to a better understanding of tick-borne diseases — and help prevent them in the future.
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Preserving Wisconsin’s elusive prairie chicken, whose population has steeply declined
The prairie chicken of central Wisconsin is an elusive grouse that is rarely seen, and its conservation efforts are connected to Aldo Leopold. But over the past 70 years, the prairie chicken population has steeply declined.
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Health care provider working to bring sexual assault exams in rural Wisconsin areas lacking access
Sexual assault survivors in some areas of the state have to drive an hour or more to find a clinic offering sexual assault nurse examiner services known as SANE exams.
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Wisconsin girls basketball participation is still declining, despite new popularity of WNBA
High-level women’s basketball is soaring to new heights, but that growth hasn’t trickled down to the high school sport in Wisconsin.
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Antigo school’s first-in-the-nation training sawmill readies students for lumber industry
A newly opened commercial-scale sawmill in Antigo is the only training sawmill of its kind in the U.S.Â
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Birds euthanized after being seized from suspected cockfighting operation in Wisconsin
The Clark County Sheriff’s Office seized more than 160 roosters and hens from an alleged cockfighting operation Thursday, according to an animal welfare group.
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New bill would allow for more cigar bars in Wisconsin
A new bipartisan bill would allow for local municipalities to decide whether to issue new tobacco bar licenses with indoor smoking for cigars and pipes.
