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“Speeding – We Can Live Without It” is a social media billboard and grassroots awareness campaign that aims to increase traffic safety and change driving habits in Milwaukee.
As Marshall Jones, who grew up on Milwaukee’s North Side, serves two consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole, the way he and his wife build their lives today centers around faith in God and family.
Minors represent 13% of all homicide victims in Milwaukee County since 2023.
Milwaukee attorney William Sulton has been in the news for his work with the troubled Social Development Commission. His mission is to represent those considered to be the least, the last or the left behind.
The Social Development Commission is selling its properties on Milwaukee’s North Avenue for about $3 million to help pay for expenses needed to move the now-closed agency forward.
What caused SDC’s unraveling? The results of a state audit launched just before its closing should fill in some details. Already clear is that past leaders significantly weakened internal financial controls with little outside scrutiny.
Here’s what to know about the Social Development Commission’s troubled history and abrupt closing.
In response to what he described as increased brazenness among teens using firearms to steal property and commit other violent crimes, Milwaukee Police Chief Jeffrey Norman has called on parents and others in the community to intervene.
Food insecurity peaked in 2020 during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic but declined with the help of financial support programs. Now that those programs are ending, service providers are seeing an increase in those in need in Milwaukee.
Monica Wendel, the new dean of the Zilber College of Public Health at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, discusses why there has been a summer uptick in COVID-19 cases as well as how the community can keep safe as the trend continues.
Gawaine Edwards says he’s stuck in prison doing “dead time.” He can’t be released for another 12 years because he committed his crime after the enactment of Wisconsin’s truth-in-sentencing law.
Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley has announced a series of new projects aimed at stemming the tide of death and destruction caused by opioid addiction.
