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Staff at one northern Wisconsin school held parades Tuesday to show students they are missed. While such acts may seem harmless, health experts are reinforcing that social distancing is necessary to slow the spread of the new coronavirus.
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The state is opening two voluntary isolation centers in Milwaukee and Madison for people infected with the new coronavirus who have nowhere else to go.
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The Wisconsin Supreme Court has ordered a Dane County election official to change his guidance related to absentee voting.
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The availability of tests for COVID-19 continues to be an issue in Wisconsin and across the United States, particularly given a shortage of testing supplies. WisContext associate editor Wil Cushman discusses what it means for the outbreak in the state.
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Phone lines are overloaded as Wisconsin's unemployment insurance system struggles under a surge of new claims in the wake of the state's response to COVID-19.
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Wisconsin's schools are closed until further notice, and it’s unclear when students will return to their classrooms.
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111 voting jurisdictions in Wisconsin can't even staff a single polling place, while more than half of all cities and towns say they're facing a shortage of poll workers in the run-up to Wisconsin's April 7 election.
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A growing number of universities in Wisconsin are letting students choose between getting traditional letter grades and pass/fail options this semester after classes were disrupted due to COVID-19.
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Garden businesses around the state say they've seen an increase in seed sales as people look for activities for kids and to ensure food security as the new coronavirus keeps everyone at home.
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A University of Wisconsin-Madison journalism professor says despite all the grave predictions about the death of local news, the necessity of news in a community will keep some newspapers alive.