Across the country, teachers and administrators are working to address two major challenges: learning loss and student engagement. A variety of factors make it difficult for students to attend …

The ratio of state and local taxes that Wisconsinites paid as a share of their personal income fell to the lowest levels on record in 2022. The same was true of our state’s national rank for this …

Laken Riley set out for a peaceful morning jog the day that she violently died. It was a trail run, the type of workout that college students would assume to be a safe excursion, on the paved …

“Elections have consequences. I won.” —Barack Obama, October 25, 2010   “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” …

Dear Editor:  The permits recently issued by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) demonstrate what the Enbridge Line 5 relocation project supporters have been saying for a while …

The rush to decode the Latino male vote for Donald Trump has been exasperating. A solid assessment is still far off. Crucial context is missing, undercut by sketchy understandings of what it means to …

Let’s step back a few years to trace the beginning of high stakes school test-taking in America. It’s January 8, 2002. The place is Hamilton, Ohio. The speaker is President George W. Bush on …

Donald Trump won Wisconsin in 2016 on his way to beating Hillary Clinton. Then he lost Wisconsin in 2020 as Joe Biden won back the “Blue Wall.”’ And now, in 2024, Trump won back Wisconsin …

Call it a homecoming. Before there were European settlers who arrived in south central Wisconsin. Before the first cabins were raised. Before the first plow turned the soil. Before a state line …

The U.S. military is apologizing, attempting to make amends in the way that it often does for past mistakes — with paperwork. Officials have been busy upgrading “less than honorable” discharges …

The Biden administration has put forward a new policy framework that would upend the 1980 Bayh-Dole Act, a bipartisan law that has supported millions of jobs and led to the creation of thousands of …

Congress is considering a bill that could exacerbate government waste and give American companies’ most valuable trade secrets to China. That’s obviously not lawmakers’ goal. But it’s …

None of the racist taunts of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump were lost in translation. They dripped from his lips in English and then were translated into Spanish. Trump appeared in …

Ellie and Zach Tomaszewski of Eagle River enjoying the night sky with the view of the comet on the evening of Thursday, Oct. 17. —Photo By Katie Tomaszewski

How will that affect customers in Wisconsin? Farewell, Frontier internet and phone service. Last month, Verizon Communications announced plans to buy the, to put it mildly, widely-disliked …

A simple reform to Medicare’s prescription drug program could put billions of dollars back into seniors’ pockets over the next decade. That’d help them better manage their chronic conditions …

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, who are you calling “fickle?” Repeatedly labeling former President Donald Trump as a man of “fickle leadership” was a go-to line for Walz during the first and only …

An adult gray fox, a somewhat uncommon species in the North Woods, saunters down a city street on Eagle River’s south side in broad daylight. The species is strikingly different than the red fox …

U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy warns that today’s youth mental health crisis is the “defining public health issue of our time.” He’s right. American adolescents are experiencing …

Expanding Medicaid coverage in Wisconsin would add fewer enrollees relative to other remaining non-expansion states, but deliver a much larger fiscal benefit to state taxpayers. In Wisconsin, the …