Wisconsin is in the middle of a national controversy about the health risks of contact sports, with research into concussions being conducted in the state, and a string of players who have left football after suffering brain injuries.
Past the shuttered General Motors plant and the Janesville Terrace trailer home park, a facility not seen in the United States in three decades could soon rise: a manufacturing plant that will make a vital radioactive isotope used to detect cancer.
The recent cold weather in Wisconsin has been brutal, but what is its cause? UW-Madison atmospheric scientist Jonathan Martin breaks down why frigid conditions have stuck around in Wisconsin and what the East Coast is facing with a "bomb cyclone."
Northern Wisconsin is a frigid place come winter. But as the state has warmed, the certainty of snow gradually vanished, leaving the traditional winter dogsledding races frequently canceled for lack of good powder.
