Milwaukee County officials continue to make strides to drastically reduce the number of residents incarcerated in youth prisons.
2 Milwaukee organizations win grants to address domestic violence, sexual assault
Grants from Advocate Aurora Health will help UMOS and the Asha Project address domestic violence and sexual assault.
Groups, lawmakers push to ease expungement of low-level criminal convictions
A bipartisan group of legislators is launching a new effort to reform Wisconsin’s tougher-than-average expungement laws.
‘The workload is through the roof’: How the closing of South Side station is affecting the Milwaukee Fire Department
Station 17 on the city’s far South Side is the seventh fire station to close in Milwaukee since 2018. Acting Chief Aaron Lipski says while resources have declined, demands for his department’s services have not.
NNS on ‘Lake Effect’: NNS reporter Edgar Mendez discusses drug-related deaths in 2020
NNS reporter Edgar Mendez joins Joy Powers of WUWM’s “Lake Effect” to discuss another record-breaking year in Milwaukee County for drug deaths.
Despite reduced traffic, crash fatalities are up sharply in Milwaukee County this year
Milwaukee County has experienced 95 crash-related deaths so far this year, compared to 74 in all of 2019. Speed was a factor in the majority of those crashes.
COVID-19 killed a thousand Wisconsinites in three weeks. These residents don’t see the danger.
Some Wisconsinites downplay the severity of COVID-19, spurning masks and vaccinations and inhibiting efforts to contain the pandemic.
Aggressive policing escalates violence at protests, research shows. A former Madison police chief touts a better way.
David Couper, Madison’s police chief from 1972 to 1993, says law enforcement should ditch the riot gear and tear gas to keep the peace.
The NNS coronavirus update: What Milwaukee residents need to know the week of Oct. 12
New testing centers are opening this week, as the National Guard prepares to end its deployment at the city’s two largest sites.
Evictions damage public health. The CDC aims to curb them — for now.
Housing and health are intertwined, experts have long preached. Now the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is pausing evictions to slow the spread of COVID-19.
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