Watch: 📺 🖥️ 💻 📱 Here's what guests on the Sept. 19 episode of "Here & Now" said about the pros and cons of the contested Line 5 pipeline in northern Wisconsin and college students talking with each other about controversial topics.

Watch: 📺 🖥️ 💻 📱 A bill before the Wisconsin Legislature seeks to halt most remote work practices for state employees and require in-office work, even as state government moves toward reducing office building costs, reports @iamstevenpotter.bsky.social.

The U.S. Department of Education announced that it’s ending grant programs that help fund minority-serving colleges, including more than 600 Hispanic-serving institutions — Wisconsin colleges say they'll keep up the work with or without the additional money, reports @wisconsinwatch.org.

Watch: 📺 🖥️ 💻 📱 School District of Greenwood Administrator Joe Green describes efforts to work with the School District of Loyal to combine courses and offer more learning options as part of consolidation efforts.

Watch: 📺 🖥️ 💻 📱 Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe University Interim President Karen Breit discusses work by the American Indian Higher Education Consortium to seek support for tribal colleges and universities in Congress.

Watch: 📺 🖥️ 💻 📱 Loyal and Greenwood school district administrators Chris Lindner and Joe Green discuss relying on operational referendums to pay for routine costs and consolidating services between the districts.

Watch: 📺 🖥️ 💻 📱 Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe University Interim President Karen Breit describes wide-ranging educational and economic effects of tribal colleges and universities on Indigenous communities in Wisconsin.

State Rep. Francesca Hong says she will focus on a progressive agenda and promises to be a "wild card" in Wisconsin's open race for governor in 2026, joining a growing primary field of Democratic candidates, reports @apnews.com.

Three years and more than 10,000 lawyer calls after being charged, one Wisconsin mother still doesn't have an attorney as criminal defendants face challenges getting legal representation due to the state's level of funding for public defenders, reports @wisconsinwatch.org.

Watch: 📺 🖥️ 💻 📱 @uwmadison.bsky.social educational policy professor @taylorodle.bsky.social describes the impacts of the Direct Admit Wisconsin and Wisconsin Guarantee programs on UW system admissions of high school students from the state.

Watch: 📺 🖥️ 💻 📱 Columbia County Sheriff Roger Brandner discusses growing difficulty Wisconsin counties have in retaining emergency dispatch staff at 911 call centers as they burn out from overtime, stress and trauma.

Watch: 📺 🖥️ 💻 📱 Greenwood and Loyal school district administrators Joe Green and Chris Lindner describe plans to consolidate operations and services as falling enrollment in rural Clark County leads to lower funding.

Watch: 📺 🖥️ 💻 📱 Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe University in Hayward focuses on educating new generations of Indigenous college students, and is facing massive funding cuts under a Trump administration budget proposal.

Watch: 📺 🖥️ 💻 📱 Here's what guests on the Sept. 12 episode of "Here & Now" said about direct admissions to colleges, consolidating rural school districts and shortages of 911 dispatchers.

State Sen. Kelda Roys, who came in third in the 2018 Democratic primary for governor of Wisconsin, is running for the office again in 2026 in a race that has no incumbent for the first time since 2010, reports @apnews.com.

Watch: 📺 🖥️ 💻 📱 Democratic Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers and state Republican Party Chairman Brian Schimming share their reactions to the fatal shooting of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk at a Utah college campus.

President Donald Trump has approved federal disaster aid for six states and tribes following storms and floods over the spring and summer, providing federal funding to Kansas, North Carolina, North Dakota, and Wisconsin, as well as tribal nations in Montana and South Dakota, reports @apnews.com.

Watch: 📺 🖥️ 💻 📱 Redline Watersports general manager Paul Vitucci discusses how a boom in boating led to a growing number of powered boats on lakes around Wisconsin that generate wakes and make for rougher waters.

Watch: 📺 🖥️ 💻 📱 Last Wilderness Alliance board member Jeff Meessmann discusses prioritizing the regulation of wake boats at a local level in Wisconsin to prevent the spread of aquatic invasive species between lakes.

Watch: 📺 🖥️ 💻 📱 Redline Watersports general manager Paul Vitucci describes how sport boats that use water ballast to support activities like wakesurfing operate at depth and at particular distances from lakeshores.

Watch: 📺 🖥️ 💻 📱 Last Wilderness Alliance board member Jeff Meessmann describes how fishing and working as a Clean Boats, Clean Waters Inspector inform his efforts to regulate wakesurfing on lakes around Wisconsin.

Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, Minority Leader Greta Neubauer and other Wisconsin lawmakers are considering security practices following the assassinations of Charlie Kirk in Utah and of Minnesota state legislator Melissa Hortman and her husband in June, reports @apnews.com.

Citing concerns about diversity, equity and inclusion, the U.S. Department of Education halted funding for programs that support students with combined hearing and vision loss in eight states, saying these initiatives are at odds with Trump administration priorities, reports @propublica.org.

Wisconsinites injured on the job who are designated as permanently and totally disabled haven't received raises in worker's compensation payments since 2016, but raises have a better chance of proceeding after Wisconsin's 2025-27 state budget deal, reports @wisconsinwatch.org.

Watch: 📺 🖥️ 💻 📱 U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wisconsin, discusses federal health policy changes, including Medicaid and tax credit cuts, measles outbreaks, a potential National Guard deployment in Milwaukee and more.

Watch: 📺 🖥️ 💻 📱 Waunakee Community School District operations director Steve Summers and special education director Tiffany Loken discuss how higher state reimbursement rates for special education impact schools.

What are the fastest-growing jobs in Wisconsin and which industries are shrinking? Eight data visualizations from @wisconsinwatch.org examine projected changes in the number of nurse practitioners, data scientists, wind turbine techs and other types of jobs that can be found around the state.

Watch: 📺 🖥️ 💻 📱 UW-Madison labor economist and High Road Strategy Center associate director Laura Dresser discusses the group's State of Working Wisconsin 2025 report on tariffs, the immigrant workforce and unions.

Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley is the second high-profile Democratic candidate to announce a bid for governor of Wisconsin in the 2026 election, which marks the first race since 2010 with no incumbent running for the seat, reports @apnews.com.

State Rep. Sylvia Ortiz-Velez has left the Wisconsin Assembly's Democratic caucus after being accused by fellow party members of threatening to kill three lawmakers — the Milwaukee lawmaker has said her comment was "poorly worded hyperbole," reports @apnews.com.

Watch: 📺 🖥️ 💻 📱 More Wisconsinites are using wake boats — designed to generate big waves for water sports like wake surfing — while others worry about their environmental impacts on the state's lakes and shorelines.

Watch: 📺 🖥️ 💻 📱 Here's what guests on the Sept. 5 episode of "Here & Now" said about cuts to Medicaid, special education reimbursement rates, and the state of jobs in Wisconsin.

Former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Janine Geske considers why the state's high court declined an original action challenging congressional district maps and the prospects for future legal action.

State Rep. Adam Neylon, R-Pewaukee, discusses the level of oversight by the Wisconsin Legislature over the governor's office and state agencies in the rulemaking process to ensure checks and balances.

A Wisconsin judge accused of helping a man evade arrest in her courtroom by U.S. immigration agents will stand trial in December. Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan’s attorneys will not appeal a federal judge’s ruling rejecting her attempt to dismiss the case, @apnews.com reports.

Watch: 📺 🖥️ 💻 📱Former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Janine Geske consider the retirement of Justice Ann Walsh Bradley amid shifts in power and slips in collegiality among other justices on the state's high court.

Dozens of Volunteers participated in a July 2025 point-in-time count to assess increasing levels of homelessness in Brown County — some have previously lacked shelter themselves, and advocates say documentation is the first step in addressing the challenge, reports @wisconsinwatch.org.

The 2025-27 Wisconsin state budget diverts an estimated $2.2 million annually to the Milwaukee County District Attorney's office that’s supposed to go to a fund for schools, a policy that appears to contradict provisions in the state constitution, reports @wisconsinwatch.org.

Watch: 📺 🖥️ 💻 📱 UAW Local 95 President Judy McRoberts discusses a strike by workers at Mercyhealth East clinic in Janesville as the union's members seek heightened security measures in an ongoing contract dispute.

Watch: 📺 🖥️ 💻 📱 @uwmadison.bsky.social School of Medicine and Public Health professor and dean Jon Audhya considers how deep cuts to federal research funding are affecting scientific work and training of students.

Watch: 📺 🖥️ 💻 📱 Gundersen Health System emergency medical specialist Dr. Chris Eberlein discusses a public safety alert issued by La Crosse in response to a sudden increase of overdoses involving mixtures of drugs.

Watch: 📺 🖥️ 💻 📱 Here's what guests on the Aug. 29 episode of "Here & Now" said about a health care worker strike in Janesville, federal research funding cuts at UW-Madison, and a drug overdose spike in La Crosse.

Conservative Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Bradley announced that she will not run for another term in the spring 2026 election, creating an open race for a seat on the court that's controlled by liberal justices until at least 2028, reports @apnews.com.

Watch: 📺 🖥️ 💻 📱 A set of Wisconsin Supreme Court rulings on who has final say over administrative rules is shifting the state government's balance of power between Democratic Gov. Tony Evers and Republican lawmakers.

Despite past pay raises and other efforts, Brown County is missing more than one in three of needed emergency dispatchers — experts say local officials must boost morale, get creative with hiring and training and address the mental health toll of the job, reports @wisconsinwatch.org.

Watch: 📺 🖥️ 💻 📱 @uwmad-aos.bsky.social Wisconsin State Climatology Office outreach specialist Amanda Schwabe considers how people experience the variability of daily and seasonal weather as climate change shifts broader patterns over time.

A U.S. District judge rejected a motion to dismiss two federal charges against Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan, who accused of helping a man evade U.S. immigration agents seeking to arrest him inside the courthouse, reports @apnews.com.

Meteorologists and climate scientists tracking Wisconsin's weather point to the trends of hotter nights, higher humidity, extreme rainstorms, more tornadoes and smoky air as standing out over the course of the 2025 summer season, reports @iamstevenpotter.bsky.social.

As part of the state budget agreement with Republican lawmakers, Democratic Gov. Tony Evers didn't veto $15 million in funding to support two projects in the district of Assembly Speaker Robin Vos as the future of the Knowles-Nelson conservation fund remains uncertain, reports @wisconsinwatch.org.

Watch: 📺 🖥️ 💻 📱 American Red Cross of Wisconsin regional director Kathryn Halvorsen describes the organization's flood recovery efforts in Milwaukee and its call for more volunteers amid more extreme weather events.