Brenda Cárdenas is Wisconsin’s newest poet laureate. As the state’s ambassador for poetry, the Milwaukee native hopes to inspire creativity through workshops, projects and meeting with young people.

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An experimental technique that patches defective DNA with donated genetic material helped families at risk of passing rare illnesses to their children.

Wisconsin State Journal's "Beer Baron" columnist Chris Drosner joins Lake Effect's Joy Powers to discuss recent brewery ...

A native of Milwaukee and longtime listener, Audrey Nowakowski is right at home at WUWM as one of Lake Effect's voices for local news.

Police found Robin Kaye and her husband, Thomas Deluca, shot to death in their Encino home Monday. They arrested a ...

After NPR reported on a Department of Homeland Security tool to check the citizenship of registered voters, three U.S.

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Once deported to Bhutan, some Nepali-speaking Bhutanese refugees say they are told to leave. Many have since disappeared, ...

Scientists are finding ways to minimize the effects of aging on the brain. Here are some ways to keep it healthy.

The Senate voted by a razor-thin margin late Tuesday to advance debate on a package of funding cuts requested by President ...