International Overdose Awareness Day is Monday. Here’s what’s being done to prevent overdoses in Milwaukee.

Fatal overdoses have decreased in the county in recent years, though disparities in deaths still exist. Nearly half of overdose victims this year were African American.

Uprising in Sherman Park: 10 Years Later. Read the full serires.

5 things to know and do the week of Aug. 31

Walk to raise awareness about overdoses; do some yoga; play games with the community; and more.

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Microsoft, ratepayer advocates challenge ATC plan for data center transmission costs

The world’s fourth-most-valuable company and Wisconsin ratepayer advocates say a plan to assign infrastructure costs to data centers falls short of protecting Wisconsinites.


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