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A program meant to promote homeownership and empower low-income residents in Milwaukee has opened the door for 30 tenants in affordable housing to become homeowners. The Metcalfe Park Homeownership Initiative is a lease-purchase program in the Metcalfe Park neighborhood on the north side of Milwaukee. Thirty single-family homes were built 15 years ago on tax-foreclosed…

As 2024 approaches, the heads of police and firefighting services in two western Wisconsin communities are looking ahead with concern. Like the leaders of other rural first responders, Galesville fire Chief Lucas Teska and Cadott police Chief Daryl Pries are feeling under pressure from staffing and funding shortages. Each chief recently appeared on WPR’s “The…

This story was produced as part of the NEW (Northeast Wisconsin) News Lab, a consortium of six news outlets covering northeastern Wisconsin. Joan Cooney decided to make the move to Omro to be closer to family. Her kids were spread around the country, with one daughter in Alaska, another daughter in Shawano County, and her…

This year, Medicare will start negotiating lower prescription drug prices. But one Wisconsin insurance broker says people will have to wait a few years to see prices go down. The first 10 drugs to be made more affordable are widely used to treat blood clots, heart conditions, diabetes, kidney disease, arthritis and blood cancer. These…

Organizations advocating for older adults and people with disabilities are hoping to build new support for a bill that would require Wisconsin hospitals to communicate with a patient’s family caregivers. The Caregiver Advise, Record and Enable, or CARE, Act was first introduced in the 2019-20 legislative session. It would require hospitals to allow patients to…

This year marks the 40th anniversary of a landmark ruling that reaffirmed the 1837 treaty rights of a northern Wisconsin tribe to hunt, fish and gather on ceded territory. In 1983, two brothers from the Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, Fred and Mike Tribble, were arrested for spearfishing outside the boundaries of…

When Sierra Lyle was in nursing school, she didn’t see pictures of people who looked like her in her textbooks. As an African-American woman, she was hurt. She thought becoming a community-based doula would give her a chance to serve people who shared her identity. “Having somebody who’s on our side, who’s educated in childbirth…

In a lower Manhattan off-Broadway theater, tucked away from the traffic and bright lights, an old farm house nestled on 40 acres of remnant prairie introduces theatergoers to a Wisconsin woman making zucchini bread, and Rebecca Gilman’s play “Swing State” begins. The play, set “somewhere in the Driftless area of Wisconsin” in the late summer…

Transgender people have gender identities that don’t align with the sex a doctor assigned at birth based on external anatomy. Their identities are a natural and normal variation of human experience that has existed across the globe for millennia. The population of American transgender people, while growing, remains tiny — just 0.5 percent of adults…

A national organization for stay-at-home dads hosted its annual convention in Milwaukee last week, hoping to promote community for a small and often stigmatized group. The National At-Home Dad Network’s “HomeDadCon” was meant to “reaffirm, recharge and reconnect” fathers with what it means to be a parent, said Jonathan Heisey-Grove, the network’s board president and…