Much of southern Wisconsin is under an extreme cold watch Jan. 22-24. Here are Milwaukee-area resources to help you stay safe during bitter cold.

Kyle Cranmer, director of UW-Madison's Data Science Institute, weighs in on the spread of data centers in Wisconsin.

After a decade of co-leading Milwaukee Water Commons, Brenda Coley is retiring.

The Trump administration wants to make it easier for infrastructure and energy projects to get off the ground. It sees dismantling a foundational environmental law called NEPA (National Environmental Protection Act) as one way to make that happen.

GOP lawmakers held press conferences around the state to introduce a data center regulation bill.

Whether to build more power plants in Wisconsin to serve a growing number of data centers is a tricky question, according to a new Wisconsin Policy Forum report.

Wisconsin writer Jerry Apps died Dec. 23, 2025, at the age of 91. Listen to Apps' conversation with WUWM's Susan Bence from 2017.

We use data centers every day. So why are they so controversial in the communities where tech companies want to build them?

Tom Oberhaus is the co-operator of Cozy Nook Farms in Waukesha County. He shares why he remains optimistic after a disappointing Christmas tree season.

We revisit a few of the environmental change-makers we met in 2025. In big and small ways, they’re trying to make a difference in their Wisconsin communities.