Lifting spirits and honoring ancestors: Snow snake is back on Madeline Island
For only the second time in 150 years, members of tribes from across the region and beyond played snow snake ...
Gimme pizza: Wisconsinites love of frozen pizza helps fuel production
In a manufacturing facility off the interstate in northeast Wisconsin, more than 30 employees work in unison on a production ...
Why is there a long line of railcars parked on the tracks near Spooner?
Off a highway in northwest Wisconsin's Washburn County sits a long string of parked railcars of different shapes and sizes. ...
That time a vegetarian won a meat raffle on the Lake Hallie Strip
The meat raffle. A beloved game where the prize is a frozen turkey, a box of steaks or a chain ...
Remembering Wisconsin Astronaut Laurel Clark’s Interstellar Dreams
Astronaut Laurel Clark’s life ended abruptly on February 1, 2003, when the space shuttle Columbia exploded near the end of ...
100 years of ski jumping: Celebrating Westby’s Snowflake Ski Club
It's a windy night in Westby, Wisconsin as volunteers with the Snowflake Ski Club groom the hills below the five ...
“We just want to be part of the American dream”: Cuban exile talks troubled past and hopeful future
(This story is an excerpt from the podcast, “WPR Reports: Uprooted.”) Osvaldo Durruthy was sitting in a Wisconsin prison in ...
‘He made the best of life’: How a family turned a tragedy into hope with nonprofit Joey’s Song
Mike Gomoll is not a rock star, but he knows how to get them to rally around a cause. "You ...
Cold-Smoking Sausage Tradition Continues in Marathon County
"Does anyone want coffee or a bloody mary?" It's one of the first questions asked on a blustery January morning. ...
Why is Mount Horeb the ‘troll capital of the world’?
Trolls are everywhere you look in the Dane County Village of Mount Horeb: troll cartoons on the street signs, troll footprints on the ...
Wisconsin Life # 912: Stevens Point Curling Club
In the season finale of Wisconsin Life, Angela Fitzgerald joins the Stevens Point Curling Club at the Sentry Curling Center ...
Botanical themed light show illuminates the skies of Green Bay
For more than 25-years the Green Bay Botanical Garden has been lighting up the holidays with its botanical themed light ...
Wisconsin’s first African-American mayor
In politics she paved a path, a very lonely path. Frances Huntley-Cooper did something no other African-American in Wisconsin had ...
Wisconsin Life # 911: Milton House Museum
History and mystery await as Keighton Klos, executive director of the Milton House Museum, gives Angela Fitzgerald a tour of ...
Milwaukee artists bring unheard voices into the spotlight
The art community is often seen as very insular with specific places that serve as hubs for the arts. These ...