Truck drivers are staying the course as the COVID-19 pandemic continues – traffic may be lighter, but the health precautions necessary to minimize the risk of infection make the job lonelier.
Having just opened her bakery business in November 2018, Confectionately Yours, Adija Greer-Smith was prepared for a lot of things to go wrong, but didn’t anticipate a pandemic.
Protests demanding justice for George Floyd — the Minneapolis man killed in police custody — and broader police reform continued unabated on June 1, with hundreds of demonstrators in Madison cutting off traffic on a major roadway and hundreds marching through Milwaukee.
When the Wisconsin Supreme Court struck down the Evers administration's "Safer at Home" order May 13, it left the door open for a new order to replace it. But there’s a catch — and a pretty big one.
Organizers of protests in Madison held in the wake of the killing of George Floyd say they are prepared to keep going for the foreseeable future. The mayors of Wisconsin's three largest cities have issued curfews ahead of further demonstrations.
People stopped traveling when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, costing Jessica Barrera her job at Groome Transportation, an airport shuttle service with an office in Eau Claire.
Black community leaders in Milwaukee are outlining the changes they think it will take to address the concerns of police accountability protesters turning out in city and across the nation.
There have been 18,543 positive cases of COVID-19 in Wisconsin as of May 31, according to the state Department of Health Services. That's an increase of 140 cases from the day before.
After shutting down many services and postponing all but the most urgent procedures for two months or more, hospitals across Wisconsin have begun the process of opening back up. For rural hospitals in particular, managing the process of reopening is both fraught and necessary.
