Milwaukee WI

Milwaukee County leaders are moving to reallocate federal funding to go towards a rental assistance program for homeless people in the community. Last month, Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley and the county’s Department of Health and Human Services proposed moving $2.5 million from the federal HOME program to th

MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- Milwaukee police officers shot and injured a suspect Tuesday night, after reports of an active shooter in an apartment building near 64th and Sheridan. In a news conference, Milwaukee Police Chief Jeffrey Norman said officers responded to the area just after 9 p.m. and were given a description of

America's cities are seeing a socialism surge, but it's not the post-Cold War boogeyman that schoolchildren were warned about. The big picture: It's called sewer socialism, and is the cornerstone for policies from New York's Zohran Mamdami, Seattle's Katie Wilson and Washington D.C. mayoral candidate Janeese Lewis Geor

This Friday, June 19, Milwaukee marks 55 years of celebrating Juneteenth Day. Juneteenth commemorates the day in 1865 when Union General Gordon Granger and his troops traveled to Galveston, Texas, to issue General Order No. 3. It announced that enslaved Black Americans had been freed from bondage. Juneteenth became a..

Melinna Posey is doing everything to track down her stolen Dodge Durango SRT, including social media. Then she got an unexpected message — pictures of her car from the person who claims they took it.

Maxon Industries, the Milwaukee-founded maker of concrete-placing equipment, is gearing up for a roughly $2.8 million expansion on the city’s north side that company and city officials say will bring about 25 new jobs. The longtime manufacturer plans to buy about 1.6 acres of city-owned land and add new shop space in t

Authorities have charged Lenzy Ward, 23, with attempted homicide and hit-and-run following a weekend incident in Menomonee Falls. A warrant is now out for Ward's arrest. He remains at large.

MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- Mistari, a zebra foal born April 22, was humanely euthanized Monday, June 15 after suffering a severe leg fracture during her morning routine at the Milwaukee County Zoo, the zoo announced Tuesday, June 16. The injury, a severe open fracture to her right rear leg, reportedly...

CEDARBURG, Wis. (WBAY) - A family-owned private equity firm in Illinois is buying Cedar Crest Ice Cream, a company well-known in Northeast Wisconsin. Hoffmann Family of Companies announced it’s acquiring Cedar Crest’s broad portfolio of frozen desserts, including more than 80 ice cream flavors, custards, sherbets and s

MILWAUKEE - Milwaukee County prosecutors charged two men with reckless homicide for a shooting that happened near 95th and Brown Deer in late May. Thaddeus Moore, 22, and Ladarius Green, 18, are each charged with one count of first-degree reckless homicide. Moore, who was convicted of second-degree recklessly endangeri