Jon Henkes is president and CEO of WisconsinEye. WisconsinEye needs to raise $250,000 (three months of its operating budget) ...

As the cost of everything, especially energy, increases, nonprofit organizations stockpile wood to help neighbors stay home through winter.

WisconsinEye needs to raise $250,000 (three months of its operating budget) to bridge a financial gap and allow state Capitol programming to resume.

Chinese state-backed money is remaking the hemisphere’s ports, reshaping grain routes to Asia and squeezing U.S. farmers as tariffs deepen the split with Washington.

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The Social Development Commission spent 2025 trying to restore services and funding in the face of legal challenges, board friction and government audits and reviews.

Residents fear a wave of long-distance transmission projects for data centers threatens old-growth forests and pristine waters ...

The Trump administration has announced $12 billion in relief for farmers, but that won’t cover all their losses.

We asked each Wisconsin Watch reporter to pick a favorite story written by another colleague on staff. Here were their picks.

Before aging out of the foster care system, Avenues West resident Angel Shelton never knew her struggles were meant for a greater purpose. She now guides efforts to improve the lives of youths in ...

The Donny S. has become a local landmark — an eyesore, hazard and tourist curiosity — as government bodies struggle to agree on who’s responsible for its removal.

Barnes ran away with the primary in 2022, winning nearly 78% of the vote; his most competitive challenger, Milwaukee Bucks Executive Alex Lasry, dropped out of the race ahead of the primary and ...