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In “Song Sung Blue,” Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson play Lightning & Thunder, a legendary Neil Diamond tribute band from Milwaukee with a remarkable love story. Real-life Claire “Thunder” Sardina joined WPR’s “Wisconsin Today” to talk about what it’s like to see her story told on the big screen.

The ensemble will also perform its field show during a separate competition known as Bandfest at Pasadena City College’s stadium. 

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources shares tips on how to make your holiday cleanup more eco-friendly.

Snowmy Kromer is a long-standing Minocqua tradition with his 4-foot-long pipe and size 96 Stormy Kromer hat.

After losing its case in two federal courts, a northern Wisconsin town has agreed to use an electronic voting machine designed for people with disabilities.

The federal government is suing one of the largest health systems in Wisconsin, claiming that it discriminated against an employee by denying a nurse’s request for a religious exemption for receiving a COVID-19 vaccine.

A Waukesha County judge has granted a petition to revoke Morgan Geyser’s conditional release after the woman fled from a Madison group home last month. 

Wisconsin scientists and students say the planned dismantlement of a national climate and weather center will have devastating effects on research in the state. 

Wisconsin musician Rökker is marking the one-year anniversary of his cardiac arrest with another show at the same club. And he’s using his experience to encourage people to get trained in CPR and to advocate for more access to emergency defibrillators at performance venues.

More than 100 patients received whole blood transfusions before even getting to the hospital in the past year as part of new initiatives in Madison and Milwaukee to help prevent deaths from severe blood loss.