By Edgar Mendez and Devin Blake, Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service  In many ways, Hamid Abd-Al-Jabbar’s life story involved redemption. A victim of abuse who was exposed to alcohol and drugs while growing up on Milwaukee’s North Side,

As Dry January calls closing time, it’s a unique chance to consider the role alcohol plays in people’s lives. That’s especially true in Milwaukee, the Brew City, and across the state of Wisconsin. Within the last few years,

One the stories detailed the origin of the Children's Wisconsin license plate. Andrew Brodzeller, who's now the hospital's Grateful Family and System Liaison director, led the application process for the plate.

A new team reaches the top 5 of this week's Milwaukee area high school boys basketball rankings after knocking off an undefeated.

WUWM talked to two southeast Wisconsin legislators — one Republican, one Democrat — to hear about their priorities for the upcoming session and the climate of working across the aisle in Madison.

Education reformers in Wisconsin are celebrating School Choice Week by looking back at the role the state’s courts played in giving thousands of families a choice as to where to send their kids. The Institute for Reforming Government is out with a primer on how Wisconsin’s courts kept the door to school choice open over the

Temperatures will drop into the 20s Sunday night and a wind chill will bring it down to single digits Monday morning — a cold start to the day!

The 600 companies on the list were selected from among the 2,000 largest publicly traded companies in the U.S.

A giraffe at the Racine Zoo has died after falling Thursday afternoon. The Racine Zoo says Jabari the Masai Giraffe, who had been at the zoo since October 2017, suffered a fall in his holding area and was unable to lift himself to stand again.

Monday morning could see temperatures at 7 degrees below zero, with wind chills reaching 31 degrees below zero, prompting potential extreme cold warnings.

"This is different in that we’re winning hearts and minds in a really meaningful way in the state of Wisconsin," she said.